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July 11, 2004
And So...?
He walks away from me with an awkward jumpy gate. His faded black pants tighten in their usual places as he slides his gaunt frame into an ample booth to my left. His eyes scan the room furtively and alight with some annoyance on a fly orbiting the lamp hanging over his stall. He rests his arms commandingly on the table and waits.
After five minutes or so he has lost the comfortable air in which he first sat down and now fidgets with anything that is within reach of his white slender hands. The salt and pepper shakers, the flatware tied in a paper napkin, even the tri-folded “specials” menu falls prey to his wandering grasp. He crosses and uncrosses his legs further agitating his taunt pants and exposing dirty white crew socks in his unsightly black athletic shoes
He then absentmindedly spends the next ten minutes designing it so that a bit of the napkin holds pepper unseen just inside the salt shaker and vice versa within the pepper shaker thereby making sure that the next poor patron to be assigned to that booth will receive pepper when he expects salt and salt when he expects pepper.
Our figure angrily dusts salt off of his green tee shirt and mutters something under his breath as he checks his black plastic digital watch. His mouth forms and angry grimace as he folds his hands behind his shaggy dark hair. Abruptly his expression changes to one of intense realization as he turns towards me…
Posted by paul at July 11, 2004 11:02 PM
Comments
is this something you actually observed, my brother? i'm curious as to where you're taking us with it.
just so you know, i've always loved the mysterious poetic side of you.
Posted by: jules at July 12, 2004 07:12 PM
is this something you actually observed, my brother? i'm curious as to where you're taking us with it.
just so you know, i've always loved the mysterious poetic side of you.
Posted by: jules at July 12, 2004 07:12 PM
Ahh Paul you can't leave us hanging like that!
Posted by: mike at July 13, 2004 10:12 AM
what do you think happens next? hehe...
Posted by: paul at July 13, 2004 12:25 PM