i had this weird impression at the train station today. when an everyday event suddenly becomes all symbolic and surreal. spontaneously. i was on a platform with some cool seating and there we all were sitting in a row facing this empty shut up train. it was a metal seat resembling a giant dark grey piece of lego ..or some part of the railway track. and the train begins to spew grey smoke and come alive bit by bit like a living thing...breathing...waking up...then the light came on inside, all yellow and beckoning...the journey was like sitting inside a metal worm...and there was a lil girl in the seat in front who kept looking back at me...she smiled..i smiled...she had a way of talking which seemed like a made up language but also seemed to be fully understood by her father...
...and the people on the platform as well...i was spying madly...and there were so many ppl to spy on...the indian fellow in his own world, staring into oblivion, glasses off and held in his hands...the fellow working on his crossword, looking completely at ease with the world...the boy in the pram who was staring at the woman in the yellow top, his eyes making him seem old and wise and all knowing...
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