December 15, 2005
I used to see a girl
As I walked to work
maybe one morning out of five
Pretty
with lots of yellow blonde highlights
all over the top of her hair
I did not like her
She struck me as simultaneously self-satisfied
and demeaned
often walking
as she did
with a boring looking older man
who talked and talked
as she grinned at him
Nor did I like her overly polished outfits
But then
a couple of weeks ago
I saw her alone
looking
frankly
stricken
Such a sad face
a completely different face
an I-cried-myself-to-sleep-at-three-in-the-morning face
I imagined a bad break up
or a death
perhaps with or of
the blowhard balding man in the suit
And I found myself feeling bad for her
But the thing is
I haven’t seen her since
And I find that this concerns me
Impossible to track how long it’s been
since that last time we passed in the street
but a while now I’m pretty sure
More than a couple of weeks
And I hope she’s ok
Hope she’s established a new morning routine
(stopped spending the night at old dude’s house for instance)
Turns out you get attached to what recurs
Even in the absence of liking
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