From 8 in the evening to 4 a.m.,
a typical work night, you can
take home a couple hundred dollars.
Lonely horny men, for the most part
I see them: three Puerto Ricans,
a black middle-aged man,
an older guy in a baseball cap,
a man who mistakes me for a dancer
and gives me white chrysanthemums.
He repeatedly gestures with his chin
and eyes. As they are crossed
this is disconcerting. I was polite
and this attaches him to me. I
have this charm for a certain kind of
man, then what to do with him.