Seen on the subway before dawn one winter morning:

• an Asian girl with a face like a kabuki mask, albino white and alabaster smooth, almond oval eyes so jet black as to be invisible in contrast
• a man reading a shopcraft/woodworking magazine, titled simply Wood
• a boy intent on his handheld video game, glancing up for a moment at every stop
• a woman dozing, parka hood pulled up, left hand held fingers splayed, cradling her face

And overheard at lunch later that day, a loud matron complaining about the foxes at her country club: "They dig their dens right into the greens! There must be eighty of them! I told the groundskeepers to get rid of them!"

What a marvelous world we live in ...

^z - 2011-04-20