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Poem of the Day: ‘A Crowded Trolley Car’

The various hands of the passengers disclose the human soul in its capacity for despair and hope, depravity and goodness, sin and redemption, encompassing a great mythic sweep of possibility.

Passengers on the New York City subway in 1974.
Passengers on the New York City subway in 1974. Jim Pickerell, National Archives via Wikimedia Commons