STOP
Why are you putting those in your mouth
she was a young girl
a horde of
young girls and boys were following an alignedabreast vanguard of hay wagons ornate
gypsy wagons across a sprawling tall greengrass plain
Spitem
out
the girl nearest him he yelled to carried
a burgeoning caned handbasket her apron
pockets stuffed her coarse country dress
pockets stuffed
she
tried to talk around them
over her shoulder
keepingup
mumbled
as
he closed in on her
he was aware of the contents of what otherwise
seemed to be petite brightlycoloured cellophanewrapped popcorn balls
but in
fact
were not
fact
were freshslipped knotted condoms flipped high in the air from the wains sunlight glinted off them as they transformed from one thing into the other
Woudya
spit those out
mumbled Nah
her eyes bugged
what coloured cellophanes
she had in her mouth broke
swallowing their content she spit out the wrappers
Ohmy!
clear
as a bell
disappointed he hadnt been able to intercede Well
Well. Nothin’ we haven’t tasted before.
I shoudnt have bothered
No. Not really. Though your heart was in the right place.
Please excuse me, I have to catchup.
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