Return of Smiley (Cold War Nostalgia)

Ugly smoking men

with ugly yellow teeth

slip around uneasy

Others by cars

parked in rows
read papers, meander

outside in the dirty snow

Hand-held or earpiece radios
watching from inside the van

cobbled side street

handshake exchanges

matching briefcase arrangements

their heavy plastic glasses

trench coats and mustaches

Navy slacks going "Shhk-Shhk."

when thighs touch

Each stride percussive 
like a rolling jazz brush

Communication in reduction
microfiche seduction

Lies in your eyes

over untouched cocktails

quaint smoky basement

candles on the tables
wanting to abort, but unable

like over-sized tears
wrapped in netting

Lean closer

Suppressing an accent?

get the drift, clipped aspect

Spy cam necklace

Pulse rate carotid dance

Ambiguous fingers
on ambiguous hands 

Agents abound

on the dance floor

at the station

all around you,

escape to a waiting sedan

clouds of smoke

push-button traps

taped instructions

along the river
cyanide tooth & 

the strange couple
their cheap cameras

picnic camouflage
analog internet
espionage