Who Are You Fooling?


from the ABC set Rail Tales - chapbook

Young woman sits
while an old man stands.

She gazes through
layers of foundation.

Does it screen the opposite wall poster?
Can't she read the "Who are you fooling?

Fake fur-collared jacket, label shoes.
Large black leather bag clutched

The old man has turned his neat,
clean but well-worn back.

He solidly sways,
not expecting courtesy.

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