The woman:
Beautiful,
Reading Anna Karenina too,
-from its English translation-
I have been watching her for many mornings now
Zurich to Glattbrugg
Suburban train number 5
Always the same seat
3rd compartment from the end
Right after the mid-engine
The man:
I am a man and I am waiting for the train,
“Love or the Lover?” says Tolstoy
Hands shoved into the pockets
Wearing a gauze collarless shirt
That “shirt”, I say
“Years later Nazim wore it too”
We are stuck eye to eye
The city:
Hardbrucke train station
Ordinary
Naked
Metallic
3 people in the middle of the 3rd platform
This is twentyfirst century
Time is the crack of dawn
The question is eternal
“You” says the man with his eyes
“Did you know so I could too?”
Hasan Sever Zürich, 09.09.2011