StepStransky
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Question #8: What makes you look twice at another person?
submitted by oil_paint03
At the high table by
the sandwich counter I
grow my future, word
by word, I like to think. If
nothing else, it's respite
from the madness under
fluorescence six floors
up. Twenty minutes. Behind me,
lunchtime custom pulls
hungry people past my
shoulder, to muse over
fillings and what sort of bread
is best. I notice only her sweater -
green -
before the tiny cursor and
keyboard pulls me back, and
I reach for a taste of my coffee.
Her lean is unusually close, even
for the wholemeal at bottom-left, then
I feel her breath across me and
her lips upon my neck. And
still I don't know who this is – only
who it's not – and something inside
wakes up and tells me
it's time to take a second look.