he sat inside the DMV
took him
better than a halfhour to get in after it opened anthat chucked on top of the
twentythree minutes he stood outside in line
he rolled past on two prior
occasions but the line wrapped around the building it wasnt movingwasnt going
anywhere like a constrictor crushing the life out of its prey slowly
suffocating it before eating it head first
he had no idea where
the DMVs head was
he sat inside head down reading a
book
he glanced upeyes came up to a
scent
Where the hell she
come from
when he walked in he eyeballed
the place
hadnt a clue how he missed her
obviously she preceded him in
to his right at the counter an
employee accepted her paperwork and motioned for her to step back
then they said Lose the mask.
took the words right out of his
mouth
Wellsheeit off comes the mask her arched black eyes are heightened by high Hispanic cheekbones straight nose full lips painted red her head was the
cherry atop a sundaeWOW
then she quickly undid her folded ponytail let her jet black hair fall
across her back down to the base of her spine she used both hands to shake it free then shook her head shaking her mane utterly naturally free
What
a beauty
he liked when happenstance treated him well
though his happenstances usually did
when it came to women
in the right place at the right
time
who knew the DMV would ever be the
right place
he thanked his lucky stars
they graced him again
the employee took her license
photograph
itll never do her justice
if the DMV was wise and took a
moment longer and created flattering shots most people wouldnt bitch the excruciatingly
long wait
yadon like your image yacan pay for another toss of the dice which
might be as poor as the one yahave
Okay. Put your mask back on.
NO Whambamthankyamaam so anticlimactic wannabe climax strangled in its crib
she did shutdown the fireworks quickly bundled her hair up and confined it
again kinda like closing a exquisite dangerous
stiletto
she did what she was told
he
had to get himself a woman like that
the DMV is publicspace
NOT IN PUBLIC
NOT ALLOWED
TRESPASSERS WILL BE
VIOLATED he
loved that sign he saw hung badly on a barbedwire fence in Montana
if he didnt do all the things he did
that he wasnt supposed to hed have lead a miserable life
the quality of ones life isnt
doing what youre toldisnt falling in lineis understanding the difference
between you and othersthe difference between right and wrong is standing up for what is right decrying it
deploring defying it not lipservice but getting in its face because the very first thing to understand about wrong
is that itll never correct itself
it has to be corrected
all that shit ran subterranean
through his brain as he watched the employee and goddess conclude their
interaction
then she was gone
gone as suddenly as she appeared
he hmmedstroked his masked
chin returned to his book
he decided she was never there
a figment of his imagination
he liked figs
sometimes they presentedrolled out of his imagination when boredom
picked at him like a cat bound indoors picked with a claw at a screened window trying to work its way
out
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