This design was created in collaboration with Max Stossel. TEKSTartist created this design based off the main characters in the YouTube video Max produced.

Look closely at the body of the Subway car in the background and you can read the complete poem by Max (presented below).

Every print is hand signed by the artist, produced using archival quality materials, and is packed with care.

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Subway Love

We stand an army of urban soldiers waiting for the train

Our feet teeter onto the restricted yellow paint

Contorting our bodies into cranes

To look past the backs of human beings

In search of the speeding metal thing

When it reaches the station, we'll step inside

And it will take us to our destination

But we hardly wait with patience

You should the frustration on our faces

How dare it not have arrived at this place yet

We won't sit complacent, we demand cooperation

From the MTA agent with pure depression on her face

Who just so happens to be powerless in his current situation

What we don't see is the tragedy at play

As the love of each of our lives

Is standing just an arms length away

We won't notice today

We see our soulmate as in the way

Of the beam of light we hope will display

Indicating our train is not 6, but 5 seconds away

If we would only turn and face each other

We might catch eyes and to our surprise

The anguish of waiting might subside

We might not be so terrified of being late to work this time

Our jobs that make us sigh and cry

We might stop and re-analyze

We might, I hope, even decide

That we can make better use of our time

We could, enjoy this Mariachi band

Come take my hand and lets pretend

These fluorescents are the moon

And these grimy subway floors are the sand

Let's just dance

Before we stand clear of closing doors

Let's take a sec and break the norm

Let's fall into each others arms

And dance across the whole platform

Let's lose ourselves, as we move ourselves

in tango, salsa, blues

Our shells come off

Reveal two humans soothed

By having stepped into the groove of subway love

So when that train finally does come

We'll get on, my dear, as one

And having so much fucking fun

We won't stop dancing 'til we're done

Until our feet are red as plums

And we've laughed so hard our cheeks are numb

And having felt the energy radiating off of you and me

Our fellow passengers will be ready and psyched

To heartfully join the choreography

The whole train car will bounce with glee

We'll miss our stops physically

But won't miss them, if you know what I mean

And then we'll finally take our seats

In Brighton Beach, Jamaica Queens, The Rockaways

Or wherever the hell we may be

You'll rest your tired little head on me

And our smiles, they'll beam as we look back on how eagerly

We awaited this train to take us away from exactly

Where we were supposed to be.

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