Monday, February 09, 2009

Dear Miss Backer,

Your two items that were the entirety of your purchase are as follows:

  1. Ground Turkey (probably for burgers)
  2. Cat Litter (probably for a littler box)
The original color of your hair was peaking out of your scalp, most likely to be taken care of before the next night you took those two well manufactured mounds more commonly called breasts out on the town. (My teachers would call that a run on sentence; it would be hell to diagram.) Your purse was large enough to fit 6 gold bars and probably cost 3. I saw you drive away in your H3, with its H3 license plate frame, just in case some one didn't notice the H3 symbol above the other H3 symbol. You drove over two double yellow lines to go about your business, I did too.

I imagine you at home now, yoga pants and sports bra. Your hair is up in a bun, your cat is curled up next to a fireplace, or a wall heater. Turkey, uncooked. Cat box, unfilled. Text messages on an Iphone plan some future night of possible infidelity, for someone. A throw pulled over your feet and a bottle of smartwater sits on the end table. Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Yes. Yes, you are.

3 comments:

Frowning Bill said...

Dude are you doing character studies from receipts you find I love it! I had a dream you started working on a novel or at least it might have been a collection of short stories.

Anonymous said...

This is a good post.

Love,
Dan

Anonymous said...

This is a good post.

Love,
Amelia