Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Characters

Today's hunter-gatherer type: A large man in sunglasses fumbling out of a silver Ferrari. He's wearing a dress shirt tucked into belted slacks that choke him in the middle. Puffy blue lips. A goatee the color of dried milk along a sunburnt slope of a no-chin. He moves as one who fears stopping means death, throwing his legs in front of himself almost violently. Minutes later he emerges from the coffee shop, stuffs himself back into the rocket and and whines away in low gear, drink in hand like a sacred amulet...

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