Joseph Bandalos
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Stories of the 6
It’s 7 a.m. and Louis starts his day with a black coffee and a cigarette as he slowly struts to his Manhattan bound 6 train. What surrounds him at home is vastly different from what he sees throughout the day at his locksmith job in midtown. Day in and day out he falls deeper and deeper into the repetitive nature that is the normal 9-5. That was until one evening, on his hour long train ride back to his apartment in Hunts Point. He witnessed a gentleman, slender and a bit unkempt, sketching with his ballpoint into a moleskine notebook. Louis didn’t think much of it, but he did notice this gentleman’s tendency of looking around the subway car briefly and proceeding to scratch his ballpoint back into the pages of his moleskine notebook. As the 6 train pulled into a station the gentleman hastily got up and left the car. Louis noticed the moleskine notebook on the seat just before the doors closed and as he sat up to yell for the gentleman, the doors closed. Louis picked up the book and put it in his backpack thinking he may run into the slender gentleman again. Louis looked for the gentleman day after day hoping to see him again to return his journal. A week goes by with no sighting. Louis decides to see what it is that this slender gentleman was scratching so rapidly into his moleskine notebook. Upon opening the first page he is looking at beautiful life like renderings of train riders in the subway. As he looks at page after page, he digests the blue ink. Captivated by the subtle beauty of what this gentleman was seeing through his eyes, he gets to the middle of the book where he found himself. Louis looked at himself and saw what the slender gentleman had seen; pain, but captured in a beautiful way.
By Joseph Bandalos3 years ago in Humans