Where do you look?
Up or down?
And when you encounter people, it is dead-on, avoided, or coquettish
I was always looking up
Stopping to smell the roses
But all I smell now is shit
And I have to look down to avoid stepping in it
Literally
Figuratively
The avoided gaze is interesting to me
It annoys me
Particularly when it concerns transport -
The autonomous movement of bodies through space.
The avoided gaze says so much
The opposite of a relentless stare
And we are walking straight at each other