How We Didn't End Up On Craigslist:
When you told me
that we could have ended up
in the Missed Connections section
of Craigslist,
you told me
that you were composing the advertisement to be posted
while sitting across from me on the train that day.
Maybe it would have said something like,
"Uptown A train glances, Thursday night around 10:30pm, starting @ 59th St Station, m4w (3/3/2011)
We kept giving each other shy glances.
I was reading a book with a title making a cross,
had an army jacket on with a German flag on it,
with a black hat on.
You are asian,
had a sparkling scarf on your head,
a nice tan jacket,
skirt with heeled black boots with buttons down the sides of them.
You were playing a game on your phone,
which looked like zombies in a cafe..."
How easily
we could have felt like two separate boxes
of lost kittens
until you realized that it wasn't too late,
got up to give me your number.
that we could have ended up
in the Missed Connections section
of Craigslist,
you told me
that you were composing the advertisement to be posted
while sitting across from me on the train that day.
Maybe it would have said something like,
"Uptown A train glances, Thursday night around 10:30pm, starting @ 59th St Station, m4w (3/3/2011)
We kept giving each other shy glances.
I was reading a book with a title making a cross,
had an army jacket on with a German flag on it,
with a black hat on.
You are asian,
had a sparkling scarf on your head,
a nice tan jacket,
skirt with heeled black boots with buttons down the sides of them.
You were playing a game on your phone,
which looked like zombies in a cafe..."
How easily
we could have felt like two separate boxes
of lost kittens
until you realized that it wasn't too late,
got up to give me your number.