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The Bus-Shelter

John D Robinson

Exactly what it was over I
can no longer recall but he
tugged at my arm and said
‘Drop it, don’t push it’
‘Fuck you’ I whispered
‘Look, I don’t want to
see you hurt’ he said;
I looked across at the
asshole that was causing
me concern; he didn’t
look dangerous to me
and I felt good and ready;
‘Listen, just let it go’ he
said again and I looked
into his rugged face and
knew what I felt I should
do rather than what I
was going to do and I
turned away from my
drunken advisor and then
over at ‘Mad Bob’ who
was staring wildly;
after a little verbal exchange
‘Mad Bob and I closed the
matter with a resentful
and cautious handshake;
there were 6 of us wino’s
in that bus shelter that
morning and we’d all been
waiting for something to
happen, to change the
scene for a while, no
matter how brutal or
senseless it may be
and for a few heated
moments it looked like
the waiting was over;
but it wasn’t to be
and all of us felt a little
disappointed and the
bus shelter became quiet
and
we continued with
our drinking
and waiting.

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