A Day in the Life

[FractalPacifist]

I really like where this is going. The imagery and ideas are powerful - at what point do you just keep walking? If I had only one piece of feedback to give, I'd say work on the meter a little bit, since it doesn't fully read smoothly.

He slumped to the pavement and bled out;
but I only walked by faster.
What if I got involved and somehow hurt?
Needless scars might slash my fingers... I like this line, but I don't like the ellipses.
a bad justification. I'd take the elevator up the Chrysler Building,
perch the edge, then glide beautiful images.
an autumn wind past light bathed clouds after a morning thunderstorm.
A superhero, rescuing some wayward metropolis.
A comic book messiah, manifest upon reality. "comic book messiah" made me smile.
They'd launch parades.
Instead, I pace a platform for the next train,
inhale the pumpkin scented air,
like a mouthful of crispy leaves,
and look with the setting sun.
Each day's like another universe meanders around me, here you move from inward reflection to universal reflection, and it doesn't sit well with the rest of ideas you are going for. it feels like the speaker was talking about the desire to help others, and is now talking about how their life is bland. if there's going to be such a shift, it should be more gradual.
never venturing beyond a 22" circumference
between my ears that I'm forced to drag
from one point on the grid to the next. I do like the double use of circumference here.