pink boots

[creativesoul]

the snow had covered the city of Portland, which had become too much like a city lately, and well, mother nature had had enough. the humans had believed in thier own power now, uninteruppted fr some time. Ina, a sixty seven year old woman rode with her husband to work every day, and a young guy named Robert rode along with them. Ina really liked robert, and richard her husband insisted on driving. They lived in a trailer park on a 105th avenue. Ina used a cane and worked the laser machine at leatherman. there were alot of russian girls and viet nam girls working there. Robert said the lunch room smelled like cat food, tat he couldnot eat in there. He was not hot on fish of any kind.
When ever any of the men came into contact with him, they always reported " he is a good man"
She was wondering why they insisted on telling her that.Would you marry someone that you thought was a bad man?apparently they felt it was nessecery.
Richard was missing two of his front teeth, and Robert said the car smelled like bad breath.
Riding to work with them, the men talked about cars, and Ina sat quietly in te back seat. The world was dominated by men she remebered. then one day it snowed, roberts wife drove them to work without her husband, and she had fun, got to sit in the front seat and came home hppy. Richard decided that was enough of that and decided that whether it was icy or not he was driving his wife to work tommorow.
robert conceded, since his wife would rather stay home anyway.she went and got him ciagarettes, that was enough for him. he did not need much, he was happy to have a giant shop with alot of tools to use and people that could fix anything, do anything with any tool, invent parts if they had to.he was happy most of the time. when he got home he went like a zombie to the video games, and his ps-3 which ad over taken his mind since christmas, the fall of man, and killing aliens were the game he liked the most. his wife gave him dinner and they watched a little of a rented movie"lil miss sunshine"
basicly life was pretty boring, except for thier mutual friend the best man at the wedding, a 60 year old version of dennis the menace, that had continual car problems and worked out incessantly. his dream was to go back to california and act again, live in van and become a star.
people listened patiently when he told them his dreams. he smoked people s cigarettes that left half the cigarette in the ashtray; he was poor and blonde and saving money to go to LA. last night, the portland police towed his car. it would be 175.00 a day. his luck just seemed not so great. robert was always fixing something broken on his car.they were friends since they ad been in th salvation army treatment center together. he was not sure if was a drug addict. he liked younger men.
after each break up, he found wierd things in his van left behind by old lovers.
the city of portland di not buy his acting techniques, he creid for them not to tow his van, they did it anyway.
she put on pink boots and walked through tesnow to her truck, to buy cgarettes for her man. it was cold and beautiful outside at fve in te morning. in the plaid pantry , there were men getting coffee and buying cigarettes before work, looking at her like a good excuse to forget about going to work altogether. she liked it sort of. she came home in her pink boota ad said"i am expecting sex this evening, prepare to die"
he laughed
it seems everyone wants to fuck me but you
'yoou are so cute' he says as he kisses her
and laughs

[mnaz]

maybe not that night.