while waiting /on the bus

[scottobear]

3/13/03 8:12 pm

fluffy thick clouds in the dark high above, filled with sparks of bright blue-white light flashing like living veins, circled like frontier wagons around a clear spot containing the moon directly above.

It's like being in the eye of a hurricane, without any rain scent or prevailing winds beforehand. Patches of sky to the north are pink, not sure if it's reflected sunlight or bouncing from the city.

3/13/03 8:28 pm

my mind has a mariachi band playing inside, sans the vocals.

3/13/03 8:30 pm

quick head count-front to back
driver-

• white male, mid-late 40s

passengers -

• black woman upper 20s professionally dressed on cellular phone


• black woman low 20s casually dressed talking in ASL with


• black man 18ish in striped polo shirt


• Hispanic man mid 30s sleeping, dry cleaners uniform


• myself


• black middle-aged mother with 12ish child, both eating vanilla pudding snacks in casual wear


• older white 50s? In headphones and sullen face


• black teen in wifebeater and neck scar tapping foot to an internal beat

back row-

• four rowdy, dusky teens discussing something happily in an unknown Slavic tongue... Russian ?

total -15