Maybe Not for Long

1/30/08
Tonight as I was returning home from seeing Fiona Shaw in Beckett’s “Happy Days” at BAM, I spotted across from me on the 2 train a couple. She had long dark hair and a sort of mousey Tina Fey quality about her. He was sort of a Philip Seymour Hoffman type but not that weathered or that heavy. Both were wearing glasses – the kind you would expect to see on a couple that lives in the East Village. Both were reading attentively. He was actually underlining text as if he were preparing for a class. She was simply intent. They were close enough physically that it was clear they were a couple… but maybe not for long. He was reading “Techniques of the Observer.” She was reading “How to Divorce in New York.”