the subway club

you square the inches between us.
(square tiles
square miles)
squared inches that you

toss away
sunday morning with a
paper.
(stolen)
from the stand
when the coffee man
turned away to toast
your bagel. i watched
you smile at the news

in the laundry mat
waiting for your load of
whites.

later, when you admitted
you stole my
fishnets
like you stole his
paper,
i thought it was a
funny way to
introduce yourself.

you dropped my
dirty fishnets
(very dirty)
into your load of
boxer briefs.

later, i blushed when you
handed them to me.
later, i blushed when you
pushed back my hair,
my skirt,
my (now clean) fishnets.
later, i blushed when you
were panting on me

and i told you that
i thought it was a
funny way to
introduce yourself.