Aram Saroyan: THE PICKPOCKET

delicately lifts a

wallet

from somebody’s in-

side

coat pocket.

The beat-up door to his

room half-

closed

in sunlight:

Money changes

hands one thief

to another

so the

first thief

can’t be

apprehended.

Visited

by a beautiful

woman,

he’s

oblivious,

preoccupied.

The idiot!

Stealing a woman’s

purse, he

puts a rolled-up

newspaper

under

her arm

to replicate

the push

of her purse.

                                                                   After Bresson