Every so often is when you’re reflected back on yourself.
We first met while waiting for tasteless generic tacos.
Served out a window into our car from a building that in
past life better served Mac diesels than cheap mexican.
Time has a way of changing nothing.
But still, We waited among a line of cars, toe on brake
and disinterested in the world, somewhere between
asking and receiving. The week had passed unrebelliously
and some of us did what We had to with false enthusiasm to be
agreeable with it. Mostly, in collections of spare seconds,
We went about doubting ourselves and decided that semi-brown
meat wrapped in a bleached-flour disk was our pill. An easy
answer. Ok for now. A friend tonight.
The pharmacy was moving slow today,
the wait was longer than usual.
The natives were getting restless.
We were two cars away from medication, when a Medicaid
issue Rascal® cart came blazing its way through the
asphalt drenched landscape like a bandit from a failed
heist. At its command was an indigenous 400 pound woman
dressed like a circus reject. In one glance We saw generations
of her lineage. They were not of this earth, they were
too strange, too evolved to have come from the same
line as everyone on this planet. She was moving at ramming
speed. We had no defense, there was no stopping this charge. We
had no rifle, no spear or shield. Instinct flooded
veins. Fight. Flight.
We choose neither and only played dumb and ignored.
-more on this later-
later
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