Wednesday, May 5, 2010

his chiseled, hard face that prominently featured Mick Jagger lips

The killers were on the loose. A young couple, the newspapers told. A few more days passed and it was reported that this young, triple-murderous couple also traveled in the company of rabbits. They found rabbit poop in an abandoned stolen car driven into a ditch inside a dense forest, penetrated only by them and a small, muddy stream leading straight into nowhere.
And then one evening, as I approached the door to the corner store for my daily candy dose, I saw that the evening papers were all plastered with the same blown up black images.
She sported a pretty face, shoulder-length curly hair and a smile. He had wild black hair that stood like a burning bush around his chiseled, hard face that prominently featured Mick Jagger lips. I bought both papers instead of candy and half-jogged home to read them.
The young couple came from Finland. Their names were Juha and Marita. The centerfold was covered with pictures from a vacation of theirs. The Theft Tour the rag blared. But couldn't help, and was thrilled to, paint the picture of a new Bonnie and Clyde.
In one of the blurry photos Marita was wearing a leopard-print skirt and her eyes were circled with heavy panda-bear make-up. Juha was wearing big dark sunglasses like; the future's so bright I got to wear shades.
I thought they looked like Sid and Nancy.
Later that evening my best friend called and said the unspeakable: He's hot right?
And thus made it speakable. And true.

1 comment:

  1. I've heard about that. It was terrible. Curious to see where you go with this.

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