(a)
feeding my neighbour's dog
frankfurters
& swiss cheese...
(b)
reading body language in
a supermarket...
a bottle of amber bitter in my
hand, a bottle of ***,
reaching for a bottle of ms. pepsi...
a woman looking bewildered
or rather scared...
sort of insinuating
someone tall enough
to reach the top shelf
and pick a pepsi max bottle for
her...
the conversation went along
the lines of:
- just one?
- yes.
done...
the simpler the deed, the greater
the pleasure,
and it's the sort of pleasure
that's self-righteous, pompous,
and greedy in
combating dips into depression
that so many people seem to experience
these days...
that's it... i was just taller,
and all i did was take a bottle of pepsi
from the top shelf,
i might as well have saved
a drowning child,
or a man trapped on rails
of the underground...
but... since the gesture
was so obsolete, i didn't have
to bother myself with expecting
the other to notice me,
while performing a "heroic" /
selfless act...
**** me...
little gestures,
or in general: tact...
can always overpower
those grander gestures;
and ****, you can gloat in
being so full-of-yourself
that, nothing really correlates
more pleasurably,
in any form of a "guilty" pleasure
being minded as a "guilt" / pleasure.
or a "pleasure" / guilt
as thus divulged;
when talking to me, please bury
the crucifix, and resurrect
the tetragrammaton
or at least make the
compass acronym
north east west south
remotely interesting
on the local stratum.