78. Incident

A woman with a dog, in Central Park.
A man is in the bushes. It turns out
that he’s a birder, but she can’t tell that.
Her dog is off the lead, despite the sign.
The man points at it. He is in no doubt
what she should do, but she refuses, scared
because he’s filming this. She gets too near
for social distancing. She won’t move back
although she’s frightened.Says she’ll call the cops,
tell them she’s being threatened. He says, fine.
He keeps his cool, keeps filming, and the police
decide that it’s just verbal. No arrest.

I should have said. The woman’s white,
the man is black. Does that make this all right?