Showing posts with label Daguerreotypes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daguerreotypes. Show all posts

28 August, 2011

Daguerreotypes:Leon and Delilah's Night Out


Leon wandered the dark narrow bar, telling people who didn't know him he just got out of prison – 5 months – and would they buy him a drink. Underage Delilah hobbled around on crutches, sneaking pity beers from men old enough to be her father but young enough to appreciate her cleavage. One drunk couple, slopping all over the floor, stumbled out to the parking lot, fucked in the back seat of an '95 Oldsmobile, and returned. After two more shots, she started rubbing up on a woman playing darts and before long, they were dancing. Leon managed a few drinks before Underage Delilah ratted him out for a beer and a menthol cigarette.

“I hurt my leg in the river,” she said. “I'd show you my scars, but haven't been able to shave my legs.”

31 July, 2011

Daguerreotypes II



Small town laundromat Saturday morning:
me and the one sober resident
of a depopulated 300 resident town
who, undoubtedly, just got off work
an hour or so ago and is completing
one more unpleasant chore
so he can fall asleep
unencumbered by Protestant Guilt.

He looks as tired as I have felt.
He will feel the same way
tomorrow.

He carries in the bachelor's load--
two pairs of jeans (he's wearing his third pair)
four shirts, four stained once-white t-shirts,
socks, underwear. I caught him
looking amused
as I hung my wife's dress clothes
(she hates wrinkles) and I wonder

if he wonders
why she isn't doing laundry. Maybe
he wonders what's it's like
to have to figure out
who has more time to kill
sitting in an unair-conditioned laundromat
on a Saturday morning
as the humid summer weather
is settling in.