The Bus

They filed onto the bus,
filling the aisle,
“All the way to the back, folks”
chanted like a mantra,
as if the force of each
word provided the energy
to shuffle each foot a
little further back.
The baseball game was over,
their team won, 1 – 0,
after a duel of pitchers.
Happy but exhausted, they
shuffled back in the bus
a little at a time and
headed home.