Puke brown corduroy pants that make my stomach churn with the memory of the feeling and sound of two corduroy-encased thighs rubbing against each other. Red sneaker-shoes with thin grey socks bridging the gap between the shoes and pants. He is wearing a fawn colored newspaper boy-esque cap with black, rectangular, thick, plastic rimmed glasses….
Category: Graphite Smears
My writing – dribbles, drabbles, odds and ends, bits and bobs.
To the Woman at Columbus Circle
To the Woman at Columbus Circle: I hope you made it home safe. I am sorry that you had to deal with being harassed on top of what was probably an already long day. I hope that you were able to fall asleep and that you didn’t have too much anxiety. You do live in…
Gold Studs
She has round gold studs in her ears that remind me of my first pair of earrings. They are the kind of studs they put through your earlobe with the gun at Claire’s while you’re sitting in a window, holding a stuffed animal and crying. She is wearing dark blue converse and and blue jeans….
Some Days
Some days you wake up and get on the subway already angry with the world. You are tired from a long week/weekend/day/night so you get on and you are already done with everyone around you. You look at a rabbi sitting down reading the Torah, flanked by a black woman and a hispanic woman and…
Police Report
Sometimes a subway commute is not just observation. Sometimes you have to step in and say something. Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men…
Photo Booth Technician
The man next to me looks like the photo booth technician from Amélie and he is watching Mr. Robot on his tablet – season one episode two. He has a bandaid on the middle knuckle of his middle finger on his left hand. He is not wearing the bright red converse of the movie character, but…
#9 – No Vacation Time
This is number nine of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except for number one because that’s…
Dear [Employers Name Here]
Dear [Employers Name Here], I feel like you are punishing me for being a good worker. I know I am competent and capable. I know that I do a good job, quickly and efficiently, but why does that mean my reward is more work and no empathy? Why does this mean you pull me into…
Fool Me Once
She tricked me once into thinking she was leaving at the next stop and made me think I was going to get a seat. So when she got off many stops later I made sure to take her seat out of sheer spite. In the interim stops I looked at her occasionally and thought that…
#10 – Age slower
Oh my Goodness! We have reached the TOP TEN of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine)!!!!! Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except…
Diagonal Line
He has has a golden patch of hair right at the top of his hair in the middle of a wave of medium to dark brown hair. It is hard to tell if it is from too much time in the sun or fading color. A work ID is clipped to his pants over his…
Dear Subway Rider
Dear Subway Rider, Thank you. I know I do not say this often, but thank you. The other night I donated whole blood for the first time in a while and it hit me harder than I thought it would. Typically I donate platelets which takes 1.5 to 2 hours and does not affect me very…
Little Gentian 