some people claim they adore watching
children run so freeso gay
they dont they are lamenters
what they adore is the memory of themselves
as children running
I ran here I ran there I ran everywhere
she did too
she remembers it readily
although she doesnt remember why she ran she just did
she was having a fancy latte
treating herself
she assumed she ducked a bullet she was supposed to be
having coffee with a match from an on-line dating service but he was ten
minutes late
if he showed up now and stupidly
dared to approach her she tell him to go to hell she was punctual she expected
punctuality out of a prospective date
actually she
was itching for him to show so she could tell him to go to hell
nevertheless she enjoyed her
medium latte in a bowl two hazelnut shots an additional espresso shot
she flipped casually through her
smartphone not
looking for shit from him looking up occasionally she saw children running in the park across from the coffeeshop where she sat and mused
thats when it occurred to her
she
saw a little boy break a handhold with his big sister she assumed they looked like siblings
and he began running she groped for himmissing
his arm then ran after him
the little boy ran and ran and
ran
he swerved a couplethree times as
his sister closed on him avoiding her grasp
finally catching up on his heels she
gave him a chuck in the back and he went down headlong on his hands and knees
a big head is a disadvantage that
small children do not recognise
they
have to go where it goes
he rolled onto his backhe wasnt crying
she grabbed him by his forearm
and pulled him to his feet then began towing him back to where his mother sat
on a blanket in the shade of a huge tree with either her sister a relative
friend or lover
they were terribly engrossed with their
conversation
the little boy was obviously his
big sisters ward
he
was her responsibility
it occurred to her
small children run
they run because the fight or flight response
does not apply to them
they are too small to fight
therefore reasonably they can only flee
only run
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