Todd Terwilliger

a girl combs her skirt
brushes lint from the dark fabric
necks crane looking for a train

There was a fair amount of people waiting at my stop for the G train this morning. A girl was there who was using lint tape to systematically clear her skirt and shirt of lint (or hair- lots and lots of hair), brushing down, brushing across, periodically checking her progress.

I don’t want to turn this into a Penthouse Letter (not yet anyway) but I found it very endearing and attractive. She was in own little world, grooming herself in the half-gloom of the subway platform

She was, in fact, picking off hair from her dog. She was not, thankfully, hirsute.