it gave him the creeps
in fuckinI mean fuckin broad daylight a humpedback potbellied man swaddled in a tight
darkblue knit(anything would have been tight!) over soiled khaki shorts the shorts forced unenviably down their
thighs beneath his knees forced by his voluminous gut
and if he alone struggling trudging across the open black-topped aisles in
either direction paralleling the unsophisticated storefronts wasnt
disconcerting enough scarcely behind his
lewd troubled shadow followed another man a small man clad in bluejean overalls
weaving side to side sucking a can of soda through a straw wearing a pit-stained
white tshirt dribbles at its front and topped off with a filthy white baseball
cap worn bill lopsided
and to frame this hideous procession
appropriately hewing it a pigs-to-slop backdrop the phony orangebricked
veneer of a Walmart spanning it
it was slobbery enoughcheap
white paper napkin enough to have someone wanna McDonalds fix a Burger King a
Dennys a Pizza Hut a Chick-Fil-A fix etcetera etcetera etcetera
please couldnt a white person just please
cast a surly white shadow a walking faded
wannabe halo
the two one after the other disappeared
into the Grub Shak Daves Grub Shakhe had
no idea what it served though in a quick
pass through the plateglass windows just to be sure he hadnt hallucinated hadnt
misconstrued the unsavory pair through the heat radiating off the blacktop he saw Danimal with Hillbilly Sauce Frog Legs and Fries under Seafood Fried okra Hillbilly Bleu Balls
there was plenty more but that was plenty enough
he should have kept his eyes in his bookhe shouldve resisted the
Disturbance in the Force that drove up his chest into his jaw he had neck strength enough to
roll with the punch loll his head aside slip
its physics diminish its intent but
curiosity got the best of himcuriosity got him only about five ten percent of the
timegot him if it smelled like something burning and maybejust mebbe he could make a difference he wasnt convinced he could he was tantalised
there were worse things than being
tantalised
he couldnt feel a fool if he was tantalised
1447, Thursday,
15 6. 17
1912, Monday,
19 6. 17
1309
days or fewer when the walls come tumbling down
Drumpfty Dumpty sat on a Wall . . . had a great Fall
Bill Callahan America! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItGY5GB1YAQ
Bill Callahan --
Smog Cold Discovery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qqY7gmq-4
or 13:50-ish of Radio Sessions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JLKYnQHfDU
