Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing AmericaSills, Steven David Justin
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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
Sills, Steven David Justin
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She dreamed that because of the potential inaccuracy of first impressions, she
was reluctant to instantly accept her own favorable preliminary conclusions and
yet the frosty man with the unmemorable name seemed to her as so ingenuous.
Within the cigarette smoke, the wine, and the smiles, he was not eager to take
his turn in the continual sallies of one monkey-man attempting to conquer
another one by being the wittiest of all Neanderthals. He just smiled a
contrived smile onto the games that these barbarians played with each other. He
smiled the way all brilliant people had to do.
While she was stripping a head of lettuce he escaped to the kitchen and got
some fresh air on the balcony. She pulled him in to chop carrots. She asked
where he was from initially. He told her that he was from everywhere. She
probed this concept of an everywhere man in German but then changed to Spanish.
In both languages he told her that everywhere was a concept that wasn't
necessarily linked to a place. Later on in the evening when everyone had gone
she found a note on top of a stack of dishes that he had washed for her. She
looked at the scribble of a telephone number. "Please, my Miss, call my mobile
or send me an SMS." She did, and then they met at the zoo in front of the
spider monkeys. From there they went to the ballet. At the ballet he spoke to
her in Russian. She thought of it as the preferred world language because it
was nonsense to her. Had it been sensible it no doubt would have reflected a
language of ordinary minds and so she preferred languages of the nonsensical
variety.
Then she dreamed that she and Michael had never been linked together, and as
such neither union nor separation with and from each other was engraved
indelibly upon either of their brains. As such, she was an enlarging puddle
being fed the rain. She was an innocent girl in goulashes feeling the
vibrations of ripples and stir caused by her feet, and watching the ambulatory
movements of birds feeding in the respites of a shower. She was all of these
birds scavenging in the dirt for their prey for she herself had scavenged in
demeaning mental and physical prostitution before becoming one of the rare
goddesses of men whose novel ideas were a commodity.
The dream became one of a Gabriele who was an even younger girl. Enthralled
with the rain, the rainbow, and the reflections of branches in the puddles, she
was nonetheless distraught over not finding the cracks of ant corridors in what
was once the parched earth. It did not occur to her that avalanche and drowning
were the natural order imposed by merciless creation against these superfluous
breeders. She kept looking for the cracks within the dirt but it was to no
avail.
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