6/30/2023 0 Comments The citizen claudia rankineYou put your body there in proximity to, adjacent to, alongside, within. You sit next to the man on the train, bus, in the plane, waiting room, anywhere he could be forsaken. He is gazing out the window into what looks like darkness. When another passenger leaves his seat and the standing woman sits, you glance over at the man. For him, you imagine, it is more like breath than wonder he has had to think about it so much you wouldn't call it thought. The man doesn't acknowledge you as you sit down because the man knows more about the unoccupied seat than you do. You step quickly over the woman's fear, a fear she shares. The space next to the man is the pause in a conversation you are suddenly rushing to fill. Is the woman getting off at the next stop? No, she would rather stand all the way to Union Station. On the train the woman standing makes you understand there are no seats available.
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