Chicago-born poet Jacob Saenz writes about riding

"...on a train
chugging from Chicago to Cicero,
from the Loop through K-Town:
Kedzie, Kostner, Kildare.

I was just a brown boy in a brown shirt,
head shaven w/fuzz on my chin,
staring at treetops & rooftops
seated in a pair of beige shorts:
a badge of possibility—a Bunny
let loose from 26th street,

hopping my way home, hoping
not to get shot, stop after stop."

Jacob Saenz's poem "Blue Line Incident" can be found at poetryfoundation.org