Angelique

[Wjames]

Angelique

She passes by 
on Tuesdays and Thursdays
a little past three
in the afternoon 

always wearing headphones
and bobbing her head 
to the beat of joy. 

He hears the sound I like the enjambment, the music again before the vacuum, it kind of merges the images making the vacuum into 'the beat of joy' in this character's head.
of a vacuum in the hall
and creeps to the peephole
for his twenty-second fix
of her narcotic, swaying hips 

tangoing with a Hoover
to a song he cannot hear. The observor character can't hear 'the beat of joy'. 

I think this one is really good, wouldn't change much. I did think it could be interesting if you cut 'she' from the beginning and sort of have the title be the first word of the poem but that is just style.

I like that the voyeurism and sex are there, it's a compelling image, but I think you can also read it in a non-sexual way. There is a happy person and someone else observing, trying to understand.