'Most People' Valentine

‘Most people’
on whom we all depend
in a national way
aren’t watching
or listening
‘most people’
are on the subway
dreaming or caught
in traffic talking or
singing to themselves
but on the other foot
‘most people’ aren’t
on this beach with
me today either
which is a good thing
and I don’t mean that
in a bad way as if
I had single-handedly
escaped to some lost
island or as if they
had all gone mad
in an I’m-not-coming-back
kind of way