Eavesdropping

spring 09

Girl: Are these hers?

Boy: What is it?

Girl: It's a thong, it was in your closet.

Boy: That's not possible.

Girl: Well in that case, I'll put them back on.

--Exerpt from Duplicity

 

If I'm at the grocery store

I giggle as I see a four year old girl

with her hair in fifteen uneven braids

playing patty cake patty cake

with her sister

in the front seat of the plastic car

attached to the cart.

I refrain from any expression at all

as I walk up the stairs at the library

passing someone sitting,

using thier cell phone in the seclusion

of the stair well and the single piece

of converstaion that I overhear is

I'm ok with everything except the drinking blood part.