i got off at noon today, and refused to just go home on such a nice day.
luckily for me, i so rarely clean out my car that there was almost a complete change of clothes waiting for me as i clocked out.
before i knew it, i was downtown, my car safely parked behind a running meter and my legs carrying me away from my morning.
the downtown in colorado springs is much different than what has been my experience in other towns. its quaint. its homey. full of hippies, and street musicians; panhandlers, and pretty people.
everyone always relaxed. knowing that no matter what stressed was caused today, what misfortune they might have run into, it wont make the mountains go away, wont stop the birds from singing.
i walked into some used bookstores, bought the great gatsby for two fifty. ran back to my car, dropped some more change in the ever greedy meter and headed to the downtown park.
i walked past levi. he is this crazy painter i knew from dallas, now committed to traveling, selling his art from city to city. says he'll be in the springs for another week or so. says the city's been good to him. says he has been cleaning up real nice. i watched him attack pedestrians like the predator he was.
i got to the park. full of moms with small children, runaway teens trying to bum ciggerettes, and beautiful girls from the nearby college, all out enjoying the sun as it peeked out from behind the mountains.
i wandered over to a grassy noll, where all the bums where resting from a longday of begging for loose change.
being half bum myself, i plopped down next to them and pulled out a book of poetry i had with me.i pretended to read while eying all the people, wiggling my feet in the grass.
this is heaven, i thought.
this is bliss.
this is what i should be doing every day.
but the meter was out of time.
and i was out of change.
which meant that heaven had kicked me out.
so i went home.
4:00 p.m. - 2004-04-14
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