I catch myself watching someone sleeping on the bus
She’s old, she looks uncomfortable
I worry about the position of her neck
Her head sags forward
Then it snaps right back I wonder if it’s
normal to frown that much when you’re asleep
I guess she’s smiling in her dreams
I can’t imagine what it feels like
to wake up and see me looking
So I quickly look away
Then not long after this a wet sound hits my ears
It’s much wetter than the usual sounds on the bus
I turn around to see a man stood up two rows behind me
I smile politely
Was he just sick?
He’s wearing a face that says ‘I haven’t just been sick’
But he’s wеaring trousers that say ‘I’ve just
been sick and it’s all over my trousеrs’
If it wasn’t for the sick itself I think
he probably would have got away with it
Until it comes again and again once, twice, three times
I’m thinking please don’t wake up now
because it’s all gone horrible
And it’s all over the bannister
He gets off the bus
I think that’s for the best
I don’t want to judge him
It’s a free country but some of us need to chew our food
A little bit more than we chewed it today
Poor bannister
Poor trousers
Please lady don’t wake up