i'm on a train...

It seems I spend a lot of time in various forms of transportation and constantly in motion. Today started off not that well. First there is the temperamental (wow, I never realized there was an 'a' in that word) coffeepot (the espresso kind you put on a gas burner) which occasionally refuses to perform, I don't know why. So after standing there in suspension waiting for the stuff to come bubbling out, and waiting, and waiting, I start over. This time it works but coffee in hand I brush against the pack of light bulbs bought yesterday and they crash and shatter on the floor and everyone knows you can't sweep glass up without coffee. So I leave the glass, have the coffee and then end up stepping on the glass on the way back to clean it, so now there's blood on the floor, too. That kind of morning. Everything gets done, people get out the door, take the subway to the train...I'm taking a train to a far- away place to visit a special healer. I've decided not to drive this day, but to take the train, which I'm partial to. There's a car waiting for me, so I take that. The houses in this town all look like medieval castles. The sky is an eerie winter slate. The building where the healer is looks like a spaceship. "No, I cannot treat you," says the healer, "come back in three months," and leaves the room. There is a Wizard of Oz quality to the whole thing as a soothing team of assistants escorts me back out, where a car is waiting again, and we drive again past the castles, back to the train, in reverse, back into the subway in new york, new york, these streets will make you feel brand new big lights will inspire you...and there is a guy doing spoken word with a drum on one end of the car, competing with a soapbox preacher at the other end, and some people are staring straight ahead, and some people are worried, and some people are listening to music, and some people are kissing, and some people are eating some Chinese food, and some people are studying for a test, and some are sleeping through it all, with inner clocks set just in time to wake them just before their stop.