WRITTEN PORTRAITS of people sPotted IN NYC.

The Yin Yang Couple

His eyes were black shooter marbles that never looked directly at me. He had lanky, feminine hands, which he casually cracked and a hard jet-black helmet of combed back hair. He wore a tight black suit that made him different than the t-shirted students but the same as the clean-cut Elvis Costello everyone already knew. His blond, stringy-haired companion wore a pale oversized camisole tucked into Mink Pink jean shorts that hugged her waist like the corset of our generation. Her forehead consumed her heart-shaped face, and her sharp nose made anyone it pointed at uncomfortable. She had sunken square eyes and hunched her back just enough to exude the severity of a high-end fashion model. Yin and Yang walked out of the bathroom as the same person. They were not holding hands, but they sniffed in unison.

Spotted at a party in a college house in Middletown, CT

The Insecu-ah-e Boy

The Checklister