All things nonsensical

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Colm's parents

Today I watched a young couple in Smitty's. The girl was wearing a baby pink shirt and it clung to the wee-one growing under it.

They sat
They read the newspaper
They drank their coffee...
...and they didn't say a word.

Her hair was in pigtails. His head was shaved, so his sunglasses continuously slipped of his scalp. I couldn't tell if they were unhappy or just quiet, and then they spoke.
He liked the names "Victor, Fred, and Rosco"
She liked the sound of "Zylon," but he questioned her ability to spell the name.
They both liked names starting with "C", epsecially "Colm."

His jeans are tattered. She's changed her mind about casual sex.

2 Comments:

Blogger Nance said...

Awesome snippet, Challis. I like it.

10:45 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you are a poet...a writer to be sure

11:03 PM

 

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