the sideways man.

the sideways man.  looks at you straight on askew.  is always catching catching it peripherally.  speaks naturally out the corner of his mouth.  tries to look around reflections to freeze the world in two dimensions.  slips like a sheet of paper with weight through-dropped down.  but when he's alone he sucks in his cheeks to the bone and wonders whether the pain will leave his neck in public sees out of both eyes exhales out of both nostrils in an attempt to be skinny as possible and when he closes his eyes the negative afterimages come out of darkness and fly away.  it's hard to get help when you're standing at ninety degrees to all appearances.  you're not in line.  running counter would be much easier. to look your foes in the face as they stab your back.  to think against.  to be anti-easy as polar opposites.  the backwards looking man next in line.