Friday, September 15, 2017

A work day at the library:

I'm in the stacks, shelf-reading.

Out of nowhere, a guy speaks to me and makes me jump.

"Do you know the way out of here?", he's like, and I tell him.

"Thanks, sir," he's like.

When I go to leave a little while later, the heavy clicker for recording the number of mistakes, bounces from side to side on my chest as I walk, since it's hanging there from a cord.

I look at it, and it's almost like it's bouncing on this firm pad of fat right below where my ribs stop.

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