DANGEROUS THINKING

 

It came at me. I knew it was an apparition but I was very fearful. I can’t deny that. It was that real. I hid like a coward.

I wish I could say I dumped it down the drain, but the truth is I emptied the bottle. I had consumed my consumption…took from my partaking, never looking back except to say ‘where did it all go?”, while knowing all along, the last drop has been lapped, and it’s too late…. and it was, but for fate. 

You know how you catch glimpses of people? Flashes of a second or two, and you’d almost be ready to risk everything to adapt to this person and jettison everything else? 

"Dangerous thinking" 

      ...don’t you think?   

Not knowing.

She came to me. Picked me out of the crowd, but it was not the crowd I was with, I was simply trying to get around it. She slipped me her arm, and said “join us…”

It was so impromptu, so out of the blue, that I said “sure…” 

...with maybe ten bucks to my name, no idea where we were going, and how much it was going to cost me.

In moments a limo pulled up to the curb and the crowd, crowded in. I hesitated, not being 'limo' material, but she persisted, and in an instant, I was inside.  I introduced myself to anyone that would listen, but given the hysterical mass-gaiety, it didn’t seem to matter. Everyone disinterested, but my new-found ‘friend’. She hung nearby in case I needed her. Which I sort of did.

We ended up in a field, quite a ways out of the city. The roof retracted to expose the sky, the doors open and the crowd, became, "all-strewn-about", and were having a great time. 

That girl never left my side, and before I realized, she was my bride. A matter of months, and I was hers. Foolish even then, but I did acquiesce...

As a pair we were wasted more times than before. A long summer of hot nights, and the more we partook, the more bored we got. 

Annulment proceedings were uneventfully effective. So, let's just put that one to rest.

V