on the down escalator
a guy
carrying a curtain rail
turned / swung / witless
smacked the poor woman
behind
in the face
not surprisingly
she was stunned
shocked
affronted
i laughed
i shouldn’t have
i laughed
it was
fucking
slapstick
i was wrong
going up
wrong
she was wronged
coming down
wronged
i shoudn’t have done
laugh
i did