You know that notion of how some conservatives want to starve government, in order to prove how bad government is? I sense that's exactly what's going on with subway poetry these days. Someone in the subway poetry establishment wants people to become so disillusioned with subway poetry that they'll rise up in revolt against subway poetry.

This one's called 'Train of Thought,' and it's by a Ralph Waldo Emerson. Talk about your mixed metaphors...

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads;

and as we pass through them they prove to be

many-colored lenses which paint the world their own

hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus.