today in the grocery store i saw two men, at least in their late fifties, maybe in their sixties, i couldn't tell, they just looked sort of old to me
at least one of them was wearing a fidel castro hat the one with the fidel castro hat was also wearing these patchwork pants of many different colored patches that looked like hippie pants the other one was wearing a long peasant skirt, with as many different colors as the patchwork hippie pants the one in the skirt was wearing some sort of teva like sandals
i saw them again as i was walking home from the grocery store
you could tell by looking they still thought the sixties cultural revolution was still important and they were still doing something important and that they were still important because they lived through the important sixties cultural revolution and made all magic happen in their hilarious patchwork pants and peasant skirts of many bright colors on my way home i saw them walkling somewhere i didn't follow them so i can't say where
i read that lonely people look forward to grocery shopping
a few months earlier in that same grocery store i saw this really old man who was looking up at the cans in the aisle with the cans there was a bag in his cart, in the bag some sort of depends like under garment
i looked at that and just thought oh man, this is not good his hair was very white he was wearing some sort of clog to indicate that he too had done his part to bring about very important social change despite the bag not being discrete enough for the contents
11 years earlier in the same kind of grocery store a few blocks down another old man with a white pony tail and a crocheted hat or beret starting talking to me about debbie harry i was wearing a blondie tshirt that was way too tight
he wanted to talk about that shirt he told me he had lived in san francisco sometime ago or something like that maybe he said something about cbgbs and inciting social change or haight ashbury and the glorious cultural revolution of the sixities
and how he had been there for all of it i told him that we couldn't be friends with everyone all the time
he got mad when i said that this was in the produce section i walked away as he was putting something round into a plastic bag
that guy is probably dead now
i thought i moved on from all that but i found something i really loved and let it ruin my life so i came back to all that i just pay a lot more for it now