Trouble on the Five train

You shoulda
told ya girl

to chill out,

he pleaded.

That could've been
a body right there.

Later, I asked her friend
why?

What was so serious?

She was just in
a bad mood,

he said something
snippy

and she went off.

the guy, still pleading,
also said

I went to my girl's
funeral
dressed like this.
I hate stupid shit
like that.
She would've been
28.

Seems subway cars
and capitol halls
ain't so different.

We all step up
on some stupid shit,

never stopping
till people die broken
from bullets
or health care nonsense.