BOO!
not often heard
cried in the middle of the dayin broad daylight
although he could say he saw it
coming
he saw the
homeless man walking towards him on the broad sidewalkstaggering left right asif
his ankles were broken pulling a brightred suitcase behind him with his left
hand a sloppyrolled sleeping bag clutched under his right arm he was disheveledsquared possibly cubed he glanced up from the book he
read as he walked to assess what was before him and immediately knew
something
homeless was large how does homeless get large he
wore a closed fatigue jacket camouflaged beanie an pants nondescript gymshoes tied with yellow laces
homeless was troubled possibly behavior drug addledhis head twitching right like a funny little birds might if it were shocked by electricity
he glanced a second time as they
approached each other
he had a moonface pitted by acne scars
as they passed homeless screamed BOO! into
the side of his face out of his peripheral he saw
him leer
he did not start
he kept walking asif he was deaf
he was unaffected because he
anticipated
something
homeless couldnt hit himthat was off the table
his arms were full anif he dropped his
bundles his ballast his balance he wasnt agile he wouldnt be able to beat him to the
punch
besides reading the book his hands were up high he
could protect his head or strike that big moonface
the BOO! which could have easily been
mistaken as a backfire fell uselesslyhelplessly on the
pavement writhing like a busted snail whose thin shell couldnt protect it
had he a sideview mirror he could
have glanced into it and seen homeless looking after him he knew he was because what his leer telegraphedbecause
he didnt hear his shoes shuffle or the slap
of the loose yellow laces
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