Mirror Man

“Mirror Man : Mirror Me!”—Captain Beefheart

Streets wet with rain
—gleaming streets—

reflect streaks of light
from lamps overhead

I plap past puddles in sandals
and see myself—

One night
riding a bus

through an invisible world
I glanced at one of the windows

expecting to see myself
in the gleaming glass

and instead saw a still
grey woman gaze back

and accepted this
as me



.