2004 pre car, on weekends I would walk out of Downtown, where the Stripmallonians raced around cell phone in hand mini van idling in the fire lane. “Give me a Mocha Latte extra chocolate and whip cream with four sweet and lows”. The characters here were right out of a Sam Shepard play. Providing me with much to write, I drank too much coffee there and lingered too long but the auditions were compelling and those of us who had a moment to sit to smell the roses enjoyed the show. Intellectual conversation, literature, film theatre and politics. Interrupted by Stripmallonians each one stranger than the next. One of my favorites was the mid 20s guy 7am November maybe Black Friday. In an attempt to impress the cute coffee staff bragged of ripping a Playstation from an old ladies hands, the last one at the Mall store that had opened at 6am to the frenzied celebrators of the Feast of St. Consumer. Well the Chri$mas Decorations are out, been out for a week in Mallonia [the capital of Stripmallonia] me I’m having another cup of Joe and drifting back through those mornings only a reflection now an empty shadow in the History of Stripmallion, waiting to be filled with the next got to have it prosumer shop. Oh and the cute coffee staff was polite but not impressed by the 20 something consumthug. Merry Christmas. enjoy pjc
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