GETTING HOME - 

THERE ARE MANY WAYS 

TO GET THERE! 

Poem for today, March 9, 2014

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Riding in the Subway

is an Adventure

 Riding the subway is an adventure

especially if you cannot read the signs.

One gets lost. One becomes anxious and

does not know whether to get off when

the other Chinese person in your car

does. (Your crazy logic tells you that

the both of you must be headed for the

same stop.) One woman has discovered the

secret of one-to-one correspondence.

She keeps the right amount of pennies

in one pocket and upon arriving in each

new station along the way she shifts one

penny to her other pocket. When all the

pennies in the first pocket have disappeared,

she knows that she is home.

  by Frances Chung