Overheard On The 90 Bus
6 July 2025



I dislike Milan. It’s too posh, and too polished.

Except for the 90 bus. The 90 bus is where Milan unpolitely shoves all of its unwanted crowds. The homeless, the foreign, the drunk - all are on the 90 bus. 

And there I feel right at home.

One day, shortly after I started taking it, I heard a conversation between a woman and her friend.

She was telling her friend how she used to weight one hundred kilos.

A small Filipino woman, her frame was always petite [she said] so the kilos looked like a lot on her.

It was just after her husband had passed away.

Only later, she realised,

[she said to her friend]

that the void wasn’t actually hunger.