Subway Going South

September 29, 2019 / 16:15 / Delavan-Canisius College Station to Allen/Medical Campus Station / Subway Going South / The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences opened downtown in December of 2017, the midpoint of my first year at the school, which was previously located five miles northeast at the University at Buffalo South Campus / I enjoy the strange push and pull of the subway – reminiscent of the breathing of the city – as I travel downtown to learn, to struggle, to live / I enjoy the juxtaposition of present and future: I notice and care about the people that are around me on the subway as I journey through school to learn how to know and care for the people that will be around me in the hospital / I enjoy the feeling that I once wrote a poem, meaningful to me, on a subway long ago that I have since lost and forgotten, realizing my lapse in memory does not render poetry any less valuable / Everything is movement and stillness, expectation and persistence amidst entropy //