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SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY <\/strong>
\nWord Count: 356<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Somewhere in the city was the man who Delphinium would sleep with and eventually marry.<\/p>\n

Every day she squiggled out of a bed too large for one–it took up the whole room–and crabstepped to the shower and dressed for work without coffee or even orange juice and a multi-vitamin. Delphinium wasted no time on empty spaces. She felt it unlikely that her knight would find her and come clanging up to her apartment on the fourth floor. She had to go find him herself.<\/p>\n

She walked the several blocks to work but went a different path<\/a> each morning. She stared into the eyes of every man who came her way and one who sat one-legged<\/a> on the sidewalk with a cup. There was a message in the eyes of each.<\/p>\n

Man, I\u2019m really dying for a coffee. And a cherry-cheese pastry or maybe apple dumpling or both.<\/em> A self-indulged waddler, thought Delphinium.<\/p>\n

Dumb bitch. I\u2019m sick of it already. She\u2019ll be sorry when I\u2019m gone.<\/em> A whiner.<\/p>\n

What a way to start the morning. She was goooood. Hope she\u2019s out of there when I get home.<\/em> What a bastard, she thought.<\/p>\n

Aces and jacks. Aces and jacks. Shit. Aces and jacks<\/em>. Uhhh…<\/p>\n

She watched for a kismetic moment for her and some stranger who she might have to explain it all to because if there was one thing Delphinium had learned in her brief dabblings with men, it was that they didn\u2019t always understand the simplest language of love.<\/p>\n

It went on that way for a couple of years. She read all sorts of things in the eyes of strange strangers. Some made her think she should tell the police but she didn\u2019t, not knowing if mere thoughts were a sign of psychosis.<\/p>\n

She married the man who was quite a bit older but lived in the block three streets west from her own. I always thought that was sad. Several months earlier, as I saw her coming toward me, I read the eyes of a young man behind her.<\/p>\n

Turn around,<\/em> his eyes said. Won\u2019t you please turn around.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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