Friday, June 19, 2009

Friday

Today is Friday, but it does not feel like it. 
Fridays are beach bonfires and a six-pack of BudLight tall boys. Fridays are long, slow drinks of sunshine and wafts of barbecue, jean shorts and lazy sessions of porch-smoking. Fridays are bike rides and lifetime movies playing in the background while figuring out what outfit to rock. 
Today is a bleak cloudy sky, a roar of traffic whipping around the s-curves of I-5.
Today is an wise old blue comforter drenched in rain water left out on the patio last night, deflated and threatening to mold right there on the cement. 
Today is a strange, strange Friday.
Fridays laugh and run. 
Today snarls 
His wrinkled face cringes and he spits out a senile warning: "don't come out here."
Fridays are scrambled eggs and salsa and orange juice.
Today is branflake, fiber-pumped cereal. 



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