I’ve wasted a good bit of my life doing this. I am ashamed and chalk full of regret right now, but in a few minutes, all those terrible demons will be driven away. I am expecting a package to be delivered. Spent the whole day idling in wait. Lolling, rolling, indolently knolling my attention bell. Listening, for that fateful moment when the car would ram through the building’s gates and park itself, figuratively, with the desired goods in tow, capriciously.
A few half hours away, in a thatched hut next to the railroad tracks that lead up to here, a sprightly old man impatiently tosses out bags of lush, matured, ambrosia. He’s ecstatic that we’ve come at 5 am to purchase his valuable merchandise. A half hour of window shopping later…. Transaction complete!!. The return is swift, silent. Nervous. One hundred grams. Enough to have your grandchildren have children without you around. One moment, the cabin is quiet. Another, and the seat is on fire. Rabid vibes this early in the day can only lead to one thing. The Law! Everywhere you look… Eying you like they know… Like they all know. But they want you to think that they don’t so they let you go. And you’re left to ponder the tragic possibilities of “what if.”
Pacing the room, I see what I’ve been expecting, finally arrive. Clenching the door’s handle with my eye ball driven right up the peep hole, my heart bursts into flames. The door is flung open and in it comes. Squares of lush green, lengths of buds serene. Aromatic and hypnotic. Retardation and euphoria. This moment vs. What the hell was I talking about? In a circle of tyrants and philosophers we’re lost choreographers of affluent lives. ******* slow at the fire inside, that shows us how we forgot to cry. Delivery complete. Demons extinguished. Attention bell is ringing loud and clear. Gentlemen, this meeting is adjourned.