Thank you, for not gushing about your backbreaking benevolence today.
I didn’t particularly want to go, but went after watching caramel stick to the sides of a plastic cup. I usually end up tearing them apart. The cups, like I do with boxes of Kleenex when summer hits.
No one talks, which I don’t mind. The silence is especially tolerable as this is one of a few locations where the Disney Channel doesn’t giggle all day from a battered JVC from 1995. A wall separates the staff from the seen and I’m able to feed words into the mouths of people I don’t know who walk four stories below.
I didn’t have a story today. Neither did you. Nothing changed, aside from a session cut to a full ten minutes. Usually, there’s a girl who listens to nursery rhymes on a cassette player bandaged with Lisa Frank dolphins. I didn’t see her.
The receptionist liked my sweater. I always wear sweaters. Unlikely to change, like August’s angry sidewalks. I passed a house for rent on my way back, wondering which hurts more. A nail through softened soles, or crossing the street barefoot? This I ponder from time to time as I’m fine with a few cheap shoes.
The pulse remained in spite of the coffee. I told the nurse I stopped running. She asked me why, and I told her I found it boring. And, I’m lazy.
I wrote the renter’s number on a card in my pocket. Haven’t called.
Don’t run, walk. The walk allows the rhythm of the wind and cracks, street and trail to filter your blood. As you sweat, the mock turtle is mine as the sweater is yours. Walk and look like the insane who wear coats all year… they know something, but.. but… and so on.
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Like it ! Evocative, and especially “especially tolerable”.
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How did it go? The day off, if you did.
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It was for necessity (2 medical appointments) but they went well. I’m resting now.
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