It was just as the sun was cooling, that through the
slatted Louvre doors Analise had her legs spread from China to Timbuktoo. She
didn’t care, least ways not when Reverend Blue was watching, just like he
always did. She hit a mosquito on her right side but the effort was way too
much for this time of day and so she flopped back against the caring softness
of the pillow. The rush of air threw up a whiff of stale body odour but why
should she care when she was young and she was beautiful and that was all it
took. Least ways that was all it took this side of the river. She rubbed her
top lip, the one that was prone to too much hair but she knew she was Greta
Garbo, so she didn’t care. The little kid from down Sycamore Street stood in
front of her and at first stared, then without asking he did his Charlie Chaplin
impersonation. She raised a smile to let him carry on with his dreams but both
of them knew he had failed. In the end she stood up and walked across the lawn
as it spat out a vapour. It was August, it was Georgia and these were the dying days of
the Savannah Highs.
bobby stevenson 2012
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