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Abandoned Subway

from In The Lonely by drummis

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Moment 56: Abandoned Subway

Your old crush took you to the abandoned subway, which is also a kind of art gallery. The two of you walked side-by-side, following ground-swallowed train tracks into a massive open-air-and-cement corridor, where you studied and read aloud from strata of graffiti. You stopped to talk about family over the Saranac pumpkin ale she’d brought in her bag. You watched other people walk into and emerge from the darkness ahead—trios of hard young punks, but then a father and his three daughters marched past and returned a half-hour later, and a couple resembling Disney World tourists snapped pictures from a ledge above. Everyone comes here, she said, and she took you past the spread of October daylight and into the ground, where you swept flashlight beams across still more words and art. Mystery surrounded you and deepened, the darkness now a cold and endless impossibility. She said she’d walked the length of the tunnel recently and came out the other side, but the two of you stopped only this far in, and turned back. She then drove you through the fallen leaves of her city, took you to favorite bars, a favorite coffee shop, an independent movie theater. You snuck candy in, bought baked goods and a Diet Coke at the concession stand, and, during the movie, she poured vodka from a mason jar into the cup. You coaxed each other with the straw, and when the mixture was gone she poured the rest of the jar in and the two of you drank it straight. She kissed you three times during the movie, you complained you’d missed an entire sub-plot, and the old man seated off to your left glared at you. That night, you searched for more pictures in the dark, feeling her body for the tattoos you couldn’t see. In the morning, you lingered (too long?), your hand resting on that favorite spot where waist bows into hip. Remember the comfort of this touch.

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from In The Lonely, released July 9, 2015

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drummIs is an improvisational electronic musician. Most of what you hear on this site is played live in one track. Tools include the trapKAT MIDI controller, TD-5 drum brain, electric bass guitar, the RC-50 Looper, ME-25 effects, guitars, an iPad with too many apps, and a squeaky octopus. Located in upstate New York, he goes by Kurt Reymers, and is otherwise occupied as a professor of sociology. ... more

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