creepy old man

June 27, 2007 12:00AM

My half-hearted reflection in the subway-car window…
Ghostly-shallow purple eyes, scoured-knob nose, hulking
shoulder arcing above a bulging belly. Insect in the
window, carapace shadow, antennae twitching. Scales,
protuberances, vestigial limbs. Nostril hair and heavy
breathing.

All around me angels are fanning their wings, petal-skin
so smooth. Exposed.

Creepy-Old-Man Syndrome is coming sooner than expected.
I cannot look, this hulking beast in the window, cannot
look at them, exposed.

Argh, I cannot breath, these chasms chanting. Wholesale
brain-mess. Conglomerate insectile mass. Fuck fuck fuck,
something is coming to eat me. Hungry hungry snakes roaring
down these channeled burrows, throw myself inside.

Throw myself inside.