they kicked it off to one side of the gathering in a couple of low lawnchairs not finding that they mixed well with the rest

You ended up here how

The gal whos throwin the barbecueI know her through work  You

I sold her the booze shes serving

She said if I wasnt working I ought to stop by People Conversation Food Drink I liked her priorities her presentation . . .

. . . An that shes good lookin

Goes without sayingShes goodlooking

Its an . . in a word. . . an eclectic  gathering

Yes Hard imagining a gathering of eclectic conservatives

Still    shes really cute

I didnt read her as conservative

I dont care what her politics are I really like her energy her personality  Only reason why I turned up

I saw you brought her a bottle of tequila

I did  Upside of a brief conversation in a liquorstore

A brief conversation loosened her up to reveal her favorite tequila

A conversation had in the time of ringing up her purchase

You work fast

Its a gift Coveted to people persons  Effortlessly Im an alpha people person

An alpha male

Sure why not  Our host Sallys an alpha female

Is huh  Not even seems  Give yourself a little  shake  room

Shake  Screw shake Lower your shoulder and go over the top of em

HA  Spoken like an alpha

the sangria was cold and tasty  and potent

their shoulders and heads where in the shade of a towering windbreak

their hips and legs in the warm sunlight

they sat on an abbreviated rise above the rest of the invited who seemed to follow Sally like metal filings drawn to a magnet 

sitting there theyd be dishonest to say they werent

Sally was getting away with playing obscure old hard bop over the field  the invited nodded their heads to the beat despite themselves  from where the two of them sat they may have despised their overt enjoyment

Its a real shindig man

It is

Yawanna go down into it again

Nah  Help yourself

Another sangria when I come back

SureIf you think to

Yahman 

getting out of the lawnchair belied his reticence to join the party below

he watched him go

he watched Sally the Pied Piper of Hameln 

Grimm he said under his breath  laughed  and burnished an Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story and lit it

the sangria was potent

he became circumspect under his division of bodily sun warmth and chilled by the breeze curling between the line of trees at his back

the smoke completed his circumspection to a T

Crazy he said
I got hair on my knees againwhen the hell did that happenwhen was the last time he had hair on his knees   Jaysus  his ankles too where his dress socks came up under his slacks

and while those perceptions grated he overlayed them with it was Hiroshimas Seventyfirst anniversaryif an anniversary can be said or had for the murder of approximately seventy thousand souls that day perhaps joined by another eighty thousand following in the oleander bloom And Jamaicas Independence 1962 freed of British colonialismRight On
he wondered when America would slip its colonialist white racism

pondering

          couldnt say for sure the last time about his knees  his ankles his lower legs high school shaved them for taping  sports

AhSally Sally Sally he said out loud

realising he hadnt room in his skull to ponder her too

No matter  Nice digs

Hemingway Short Stories always went longer in his mind than it took to finish them

       

  

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