Of All The Days
He kept looking over, and I wanted to hide. I wanted to die. Take me out of this situation. Don't even let me think it.
"Look at his stupid mad face, he's so ugly."
She laughed and I laughed, and he looked over again, and I thought about the eight thousand universes that exist between what we could be and what we have chosen to be. I told myself that I only went so that I could give the girls their scholarship letters since it had to be postmarked by tomorrow. In my heart I knew why I was really standing on the varnished court floor, Friday night, hands in pockets. Another look over and the eyes dart away.
I must remember my own advice. I gave him his check on Thursday as he passed by to go into the gym and he barely even made eye contact then, my hand brushed his and a "ohthankyou" managed to escape and I thought, how dorky of a voice for one so intimidating. He came out five minutes later for the first of several drinks of water from the fountain. My own advice; so fleeting a thing when that hand is brushing against mine.
"Zeus, rain down on the land and the fields of Athens."
"Look at his stupid mad face, he's so ugly."
She laughed and I laughed, and he looked over again, and I thought about the eight thousand universes that exist between what we could be and what we have chosen to be. I told myself that I only went so that I could give the girls their scholarship letters since it had to be postmarked by tomorrow. In my heart I knew why I was really standing on the varnished court floor, Friday night, hands in pockets. Another look over and the eyes dart away.
I must remember my own advice. I gave him his check on Thursday as he passed by to go into the gym and he barely even made eye contact then, my hand brushed his and a "ohthankyou" managed to escape and I thought, how dorky of a voice for one so intimidating. He came out five minutes later for the first of several drinks of water from the fountain. My own advice; so fleeting a thing when that hand is brushing against mine.
"Zeus, rain down on the land and the fields of Athens."
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