{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"eq52oPBe","title":"A Rushed Swipe Through History’s Turnstile","author":"Apolarbear17","words":233,"posted_at":"2026-01-21T04:02:09.000Z","tags":["Acceptance","Change","Formerly Current Events","Metaphor","Metrocards","Obsolescence","Poetry","Reflection"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/eq52oPBe-a-rushed-swipe-through-history-s-turnstile","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/eq52oPBe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/04/48/0448620a-30a1-4137-bdf8-f9f8178b7ae7","description":"This is a poem I’m posting here more to keep the galleries I post to at semi consistent at least since I doubt many if any people here care too much about this. The Metrocard got discontinued in December of last year and I had something to say about that as a New Yorker. I wrote this back in August of the same year after struggling to find time to write before.","content":"\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; **A Rushed Swipe Through History’s \u0026nbsp;Turnstile** \u0026nbsp;  \n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno\u0026nbsp;  \n  \nChange is something that can be pretty hard to stop\u0026nbsp;  \nEspecially when it’s decided on by a city’s top\u0026nbsp;  \nTop positions of power and for something small like this I doubt people fought hard\u0026nbsp;  \nTo protect something as basic as a metrocard\u0026nbsp;  \nPersonally I’m sad to see them go\u0026nbsp;  \nAs the machines are being replaced unevenly from borough to borough\u0026nbsp;  \nThey’re also being replaced before wintertime\u0026nbsp;  \nSpeeding up what should have been slower adjustment to being past their prime\u0026nbsp;  \nSo the metro card starts to become harder and harder to make last\u0026nbsp;  \nWhen you can’t put more money on it and solely swiping your phone is so fast\u0026nbsp;  \nWhen it can’t keep up and can’t fill it up it’s easier for it to become part of the past\u0026nbsp;  \nLike the tokens that we stopped using before it  \nBut personally I find that to be a fate unfit\u0026nbsp;  \nFor something that feels so quintessentially New York\u0026nbsp;  \nBut it’s also not something for which we can unstick that fork\u0026nbsp;  \nStill no matter how good the replacement may or may not be\u0026nbsp;  \nI don’t think the Metrocard should be replaced so fast and eagerly by the end of the year\u0026nbsp;  \nI think it’s legacy shouldn’t be merely destined to pass beyond the turnstile of history\u0026nbsp;  \nAnd instead should be allowed to just be"}