by Harvey Shapiro

    1.

    Caught on a side street

    in heavy traffic， I said

    to the cabbie， I should

    have walked. He replied，

    I should have been a doctor.

    2.

    When can I get on the 11：33

    I ask the guy in the information booth

    at the Atlantic Avenue Station.

    When they open the doors， he says.

    I am home among my people