If a bamboo tube makes a loud sound, it is empty.

Filipino proverbs
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Subterranean Upheaval

subwoofer
subway
by the wayside
the bottom-up
the way forward

subwaylines

poem by Nicolas Grenier
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The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

quote by Phil Donahue
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Chocolate look

Chocolate look
Cocoa lips
I saw Nile in your eyes
Standing at the subway!

poem by Framarz Bagheri
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A Subway Called You

Here we are
We drift like gas
On someone elses bed
I pay high you know
Here we are
How old are you
Its just a job to me
Here the ladies always ring twice
Thought youd slip away tonight with me
In a subway I called you
Hello you no more this talk of
my boys will be yours
No more i
This conversation drains
My patience dry.
Here the business always rings twice
No relaxing for the boys tonight
In a subway I called you
Here the tension always slows twice
Shed one tear its just routine for now

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song performed by Gary Numan
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Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

quote by H.R. Haldeman
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I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

quote by Piper Perabo
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Tubular

Think about this he says;
“Life is tubular”
I chewed and swallowed
and listened to the globular pipe fitter
A road taught philosopher
Who had reduced living to it’s banal functions
“You masticate the polish and egg burrito
And send the contents down the esophageal tube
Where upon it enters the mouth of yet another tube
and the contents begins its journey
Through 25 feet of tubing
Small tubes gather up the nourishment
Of fat and proteins and fiber
“It’s tubular from beginning to end he says”
The seed shoots from the tube
The egg descends from the tube
The seed shoves its head through the wall
Tubes begin growing
“Think about this too” he says
like some seated sage

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poem by George Murdock
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

quote by Charles de Gaulle
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Bus Poem #14: Materialism

Question: How does cold weather affect subway service?
Answer: It makes it colder.

poem by Robert Dickerson
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One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

quote by Martin Fleischmann
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.

American proverbs
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Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.

Hunter S. Thompson in Kingdom of Fear
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You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

quote by Ray Walston
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I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

quote by Jennifer Garner
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When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

quote by Clifford Stoll
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I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

quote by Sandra Bullock
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Once Upon A Time In America

It was a cold January morning,
all around looked a bit boring.
In Washington’s subway
was the beginning of the ordinary day.
Everyone was in a hurry,
they didn’t want to worry
and didn’t pay attention
to the man I would like here to mention.
The passer-bys didn’t clap
to the man wearing jeans and baseball cap.
They all looked at the clock,
so that to get in time for their work.
It was not a tradition
to listen to a street musician.
That man played his violin.
He didn’t try to win.
He was in his own skin.
Would you like to know?
It was certainly not a show.
But…he played

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poem by Larisa Rzhepishevska
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Les Fleurs des Mots: Le Genre de Place

Femmes sont Seine,
Universite,
Paris, Place,
Cathedral,
Avenue et Rue;
Aussi Tour Eiffel.
Hommes sont Centre,
Restaurant,
Musee, Metro et Hotel.

poem by Douglas Scotney
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

quote by Otto Schily
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