The Trouble with Trouble•
We start in a parking lot, between two white lines.
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Car radio sounds are heard: music to talk to music to talk…
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Raw aluminum-alloy lamp posts, tall as prison towers, uniformly point toward the sky.
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Women and men with bags and babies. Big mess. Obeisant, humanoid-faced cars wait, some humming mechanical lullabies.
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Dialogue:
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(As if watching someone do voiceover for a Disney animated movie we cannot see.)
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I am at home between the loving arms, these white lines. These silent boundaries.
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The trouble with Tacoma, there’s a sleepy veil of depression billowing up and drifting back down, daily. Never quite enough to keep the crows and jays from flying, or the people from driving, but stellar association isn’t ever what it might be elsewhere.
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Second strange plane flying overhead. So low and quiet, so flat and colorless, most folks don’t even look up. Don’t smile.
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K. Shawn Edgar | Man Flake | Cube Dweller | Bad Actor
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