people i met today

find: smashed bottles and favored legs from motorcycle crashes as a child draws quite well and smiles only when she means it and laughs hard and loud and sings (even if badly).

find: broken heart boys and too much drama writes a mediocre poem and boxes on the side had a best friend that died from too much heroin.

find: wiry old men with shopping bags full of ink robbons for his word processor where he types letter, drinks wine by the jug and watches cooking shows on cable access plays chess reasonably well.

find: middle aged woman with nice legs who wears too much hairspray and tells horrible jokes smokes too much pot and giggles loudly in movie theatres during the feature.

find: a burnt out man with dry eyes when people suffer homeless and dazed at all hours of the day with a sign that reads "i am a charlatan, will unmask for money" and has dead president masks in his back pocket.

find: stormchaser girl who writes stories about ransacked lives and the sadness that we endure finds great importance and relevance in poor writers annd carries sylvia plath in her purse, a feminist.

find: droning on old man about phone service and connection problems and coughs into phone lines deafening listeners claims he used to be C.I.A. and maybe he did or maybe he didn't but what does it matter?

find: woman laying in the grass outside my office today with her dress shirt pulled up to get sun on her belly a sweet lady with a quietness in her that men and women alike could learn from likes james taylor smiles at the sun while we talk breifly on my way to my car.

2004-07-06 | 4:26 p.m.
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