# A Rushed Swipe Through History’s Turnstile

Author: Apolarbear17
Tags: Acceptance, Change, Formerly Current Events, Metaphor, Metrocards, Obsolescence, Poetry, Reflection

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.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; **A Rushed Swipe Through History’s &nbsp;Turnstile** &nbsp;  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno&nbsp;  
  
Change is something that can be pretty hard to stop&nbsp;  
Especially when it’s decided on by a city’s top&nbsp;  
Top positions of power and for something small like this I doubt people fought hard&nbsp;  
To protect something as basic as a metrocard&nbsp;  
Personally I’m sad to see them go&nbsp;  
As the machines are being replaced unevenly from borough to borough&nbsp;  
They’re also being replaced before wintertime&nbsp;  
Speeding up what should have been slower adjustment to being past their prime&nbsp;  
So the metro card starts to become harder and harder to make last&nbsp;  
When you can’t put more money on it and solely swiping your phone is so fast&nbsp;  
When it can’t keep up and can’t fill it up it’s easier for it to become part of the past&nbsp;  
Like the tokens that we stopped using before it  
But personally I find that to be a fate unfit&nbsp;  
For something that feels so quintessentially New York&nbsp;  
But it’s also not something for which we can unstick that fork&nbsp;  
Still no matter how good the replacement may or may not be&nbsp;  
I don’t think the Metrocard should be replaced so fast and eagerly by the end of the year&nbsp;  
I think it’s legacy shouldn’t be merely destined to pass beyond the turnstile of history&nbsp;  
And instead should be allowed to just be

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