ON THE 66 BUS

Undergoing a suspicion
of what characters
snap on my mind
for tonight
as I'm reading my play,
" A Man's World"
a biting satire
on the sexes
to be performed
at the Middle East
the sun is palpable
by the sweaty driver
trying to ignore
the traffic noise outside
yet around me eager
Harvard students,
Africans and Asians
each with lives
of busy travelers
the bus mirror's
poet underwrites.