it’s alright,

  Just now I contented myself by watching a young woman sketch on the subway train. She was sketching a young man just across the aisle and a touch to our left – the young woman’s and mine.   Initially I found her unnerving, watching her glancing head bob like a pigeon to steal down fragments to pen into an oddly shaped pad (odd in that it seemed to run rectangularly in the wrong orientation with proportions of odd choosing).  She seemed, in her actions, vampiric – benignly so, but invasive atleast.  At least mildly so.  I could not decide whether or not he was conscious of it all at all, and, in trying to determine just that, joined the woman in the harmless letching.  All three of us were then, now, knotted in some mess, separate from the other riders about the car, yet determined strangers, presuming one-way mirrors of some psychic variety managed to conceal our inter-attentions.   

Well, then, the train stopped, as they do, as the next station came into our path.  Its plain and platform of waiters shifted to ours, and in all the reshuffling (more…)