Subway Starer
(an answer to Paul Blackburn’s poem “Once-Over”, partially quoted at: http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com/2008/05/blackburn-ii.html .)
You’ve got
X-
ray
eyes
And it’s
no
sur-
prise
That you focus them on:
The tanned blond in the green dress,
Me,
And every other woman in the damn subway car -
And proceed to burn our clothes off
With your skin-searing stares so
Radioactive;
We are REACTIVE
To your obvious ostentatious ogling.
Lust
Lays us bare
And we stand there,
A
scattered
collective,
Brushed by a sweep of your panoramic paint
One
Woman
At
A
Time.
I don’t mind
An occasional appreciative glance –
But boy, you’d better
Get your too-long-staring
Eyes
OFF
Of me.
Written 5/21/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
