on the subway

[praterh]

Throughout the poem “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds, the speaker tells of shallow differences between the speaker and the black man before her. Simply put the poem is about the racism present within the speaker’s society, the speaker directly says that “His feet are huge, in black sneakers laced with white in a complex pattern like a set of

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[acanizales1]

Just saying

[myraclemommie]

It is real sad that in today's society, racism still exist.