without ANY sort of provocation ,this woman
all tits and curls, eyes all glittery
with some sort of sparkle under her eyebrows,
this woman comes out of NOWHERE
and slaps unto my chest a hand full of shit,
smilin’, winkin’ an eye like she don’t know
how bad the stink is,
NO REASON WHATSOEVER,
i don’t know her from a hole in the wall
and she says to me,
righteous, like she was preachin’, she says,
smearing this semi-still-wet brown shit all over my chest
she says,
“..what goes around, comes around asshole”
like i’m supposed to know what the FUCK she meant
like i DID something, waitin’ in the subway,
waitin’ for the fuckin’ A train
with SHIT slidin’ down the front of my shirt
in the middle of rush hour.