WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.550 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.550 --> 00:00:04.605 align:middle line:84% It's a group of city poems in the book. 00:00:04.605 --> 00:00:07.189 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.189 --> 00:00:08.189 align:middle line:90% And this is one of them. 00:00:08.189 --> 00:00:08.910 align:middle line:90% It's called Line. 00:00:08.910 --> 00:00:14.520 align:middle line:90% 00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:17.370 align:middle line:84% Those waiting in line for a cash register 00:00:17.370 --> 00:00:21.750 align:middle line:84% at a supermarket pushing wire baby carriages full of food 00:00:21.750 --> 00:00:22.770 align:middle line:90% and packages. 00:00:22.770 --> 00:00:27.120 align:middle line:84% Past signs about coupons and the blank light. 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:30.330 align:middle line:84% Do not look at each other frankly. 00:00:30.330 --> 00:00:33.090 align:middle line:84% Pretend not to stare at each other's soft drinks 00:00:33.090 --> 00:00:35.640 align:middle line:90% and white bread. 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:40.890 align:middle line:84% Do not think of themselves as part of a line ordinarily. 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:42.540 align:middle line:84% And the clerk often does not look 00:00:42.540 --> 00:00:45.960 align:middle line:90% at them giving them change. 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:49.770 align:middle line:84% And the man who puts the things they have chosen into bags 00:00:49.770 --> 00:00:55.250 align:middle line:84% talks to the clerk as he never talks to her at any other time. 00:00:55.250 --> 00:01:05.000 align:middle line:90%