Tuesday, January 19, 2021

13,359. TINTORETTO BLANDISHMENTS

TINTORETTO 
BLANDISHMENTS
The damned fool creep in the Army
cap can talk of nothing but. His old
green Chevy is pathetic, but runs. No
one scolds him over it, but I sure hope
it drives away. There are flowers lost
on the mantlepiece; the old antique shop
lady with the funny brogue (I don't think
it's real. An affectation? Or maybe her
pleistocene era teeth have gone bad?).....
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I sweated out one tongue-twister just
before. She was adding up the lady's
groceries, right before me; with that
pencil which had been behind her ear,
and she did the addition right on the 
bag. No one checked her work, but
she muttered something weird.
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As to the flowers; they'd wilted and
died two seasons ago, I'd bet. Why
doesn't anyone ever notice these 
things? I went to a laundromat not
so long ago; got talking to a man
about his dog, and all the while,
in a small tank there, atop the front
window shelf, a curved, dead fish
was floating on water.


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