Straphangers

 Straphangers
  
 Felt her reading my Times from over my shoulder
 and still I continued to stare at the front page 
 photo of Alexander Haig, all the way down into
 the tooled alloy pinpoint of his eye.  She
 persisted and so I began drawing a swastika on his
 forehead, over and over, ripping the page all
 the way to Arts and Leisure.  She tightened up.
 I got off on 23rd and Americas.  Felt her watch
 me across the platform and into the lights.