BLUE COUP D’ETAT

A spike in her chin, two studs in her nose, two-tone hairdo maroon and black, matching lipstick, thumbs open Beyond Good and Evil, first page tough page, haven’t read it but I’ve read some Fredrich, “We knowers in honeybee hives of knowledge know not what we know” or something like that. She’s lingering, struggling with that first page. Finger to eye, thumb to ear listening to a Walkman floating in noise narrated by Nietzsche. I’ll have to read that page. She was still on it when I got off to catch the express 3 train…