i would give up lingering if this woman wanted me. she is polished and plain. her face is like a river with two small bridges and a black man swimming in. she lives to talk politics and food systems. she fundraises for non profits and political campaigns. i think i have seen her before when we were galactic cock sucker slaves at an outpost and a supernova exploded in our faces.
the man with the white hair is facing me. he is thinking and looking.
i don’t think he sees my large head. he is going to talk into his recording machine.
he has been doing this for the two years that i have seen him here.
a man and woman in their early thirties converse. they have been talking for some time. i didn’t notice them. it was like they hadn’t been there. i can’t not listen to them.
the fundraising we are looking at, he said. as long as we can fund it. i’m projecting a million.
really, she said.
yeah, he said. that sounds about right.
that’s a lot, she said. you’ve only been doing it for a week. kate has been forwarding emails.
he has nice leather shoes. he slicks his hair back. it looks wet. he said something about payroll. i can’t make out what else he said. an elderly woman with a brown face, orange shoes with gold tassels is distracting me.
she has on a black jacket, white jeans. she has an in offensive black kate spade bag.
i have faith that it will get there, he said. right, no one has a sense of urgency.
that can be good, she said.
you’ll send me a follow up email, he said. i have to travel.
how about august, she said. she reminds me of carl. carl is german and irish. he’s from the midwest. he used to be a chain smoker. his sister cut her throat with a kitchen knife shortly after he quit smoking because he had a heart attack.
that works, he said. you can tell the campaign gave him stress. there was a big learning curve.
yeah, it’s a big one, she said. was it on election day in your last cycle?
he used to drive me crazy, she said. he was so calm.
in ohio we would have had a law suit, he said. we had one attorney waiting outside the courthouse.
were you surprised by the results, she said.
i wasn’t overly confident, he said. it landed where we expected.
i know, she said. i know.
i have a feeling she grew up with brothers.
i haven’t seen his face. he has a dweeb voice.
i like a woman with long planes and sharp turns.
there was a weird friendship between them, he said.
i have heard his voice before. it is not an atypical voice. it is like a song you love without knowing the words.
it is a way weird alliance, she said.
yeah, i got that sense, he said.
her shoulders go up and drop when she laughs.
he is talking to brad, he said.
yeah, sure, she said.
a dude with a beard and upright bearing looked at her like he had seen her before and couldn’t remember where or when it was.
i was worried, he said.
i was too, she said.
well, we will set up a date, he said.
she grabs her bag.
i think when i saw her last she was not as good looking as i thought. there was too much space without a boundary.
do you have my cell, she said.
that’s my cell, he said.
she has red nail polish on. she has a wrist watch on her right hand. i haven’t seen a watch like it in forever. no one uses a wrist watch to tell the time.
i didn’t go see my social worker. he wanted to see me on a different day than i see him. he thinks i will be a different person if he sees me on friday instead of tuesday. i see him on tuesday not friday. he said he had to travel to germany. i didn’t believe him. i saw him on 18th avenue. he pretended not to see me. i followed him to alberta park. he was kissing and talking at the same time with a woman. she had a kate spade bag. she was wearing a black jacket and had on white jeans. he lowered her to the ground. they were lying down. he had his hands on her neck. she was lifeless. he stayed with her, a thousand years went by in seconds. he left her where she was.