what would it take to liven up a
drab graygreen Frankenstein slab of concreteslabs that grocery hardware bar an megastores
trafficked on
he had a brisk idea
it humoured him to look past the
shrugging unimaginative shoulders of coworkers an superiorhe loved their
immaculateassumption that they were superior because the title they were given
alluded to assumed a superior status
superiors when they got to
know himsome quicker than others they usually provided him leeway likely because he looked askance when they
outlined the company strategies that they refused to question
then
he didnt have a mirror to see his expression reflected in if he did he would have recognised Yawanna take your status outside an you can demonstrate
your superiority to me
unsaid Ill assume you obviously assume the companys
gonna pay for the damages youll incurthe reconstructive plastic surgery to fashion
a reasonable facsimile thereof of your nose eyes jaw you should be cautioned to rememberplease that a reasonable facsimile thereof isnt you as
you were youll never be as pretty as you
are now Guaranteed
some spine are made of malleable
aluminum
he assumed his superior recognised
his scarred eyebrows an cheekbones his
pugnacious ears his queerlyhealed broken fingers an knuckles
a no-ones-fool exec should also have
recognised his unflinching steelblue eyesthe no-compromise set of his jaw
he saw in the pretty exec that somebody
ate his lunchthat he went hungrythat he hadnt the balls to rat on a bully he was fearful Why
Louisville sluggers werent expensiveChrist he had his old mans brass
knuckles from his Miami insurance dayshis dads blackjack sapthose rudimentary equalisers
that blatant assured a kind of level playing field yes times
were different then nobody got shot or
stabbed
yah somebody ate his lunch an now he thought he
was gettin back what he lost
that never comes back
maybe he was wrong
so to snaz up the Caspar Milquetoast
concrete floorhis shop he didnt share his solution with
his superior
he didnt ask for permission
he went to the local Planned
Parenthood junior college four-year college an amassed more colourful packets
of condoms than he thought he could
he cut a hole in his pocket
he scattered the bright packets
through the hole down his leg
security cameras would record
litter on the floorscattered in the aisles but nothe had to admit not the clever method of distribution
his halfacre of dull concrete was
a liquorstore
the
only liquorstore in town that provided free bennies
at the conclusion of an intimate evening
of imbibing
there
was no reason to be stupid
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