All Aboard

a cockroach crawls out from behind a metal thing

up on bed 22

the guy above me snores

some other guy is blasting music now, it's midnight

the guy snoring is Nepalese, or something

guys in the compartment towards the front of the train

talk, like they're in their living room, in a (local) language (I don't understand)

the music is upbeat

I wonder where the train was when the cockroach was born

or whose bag it boarded on.

a kid in a red jumper lies at its mother's feet per-

pendicular to me. It doesn't matter where it came from.

At some point it will have to disembark from the

train (it does not know this), too.