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Electronic Palimpsest
The Kroger Rewards card left an electronic palimpsest as to what she was doing now. You knew that, you knew every time you used the card to cleave seventy three cents off five frozen burritos there would be some thread of discourse between you and her. You fold it up and wad it into your jeans pocket.
It had been what, two years and some change?
You ran into her one time outside Bellarmine Chapel, the one over at Xavier, where she liked to attend mass on Sunday evenings. You made an approach to her because you were trying to amend your past as a means to appease the whims of a Borderline you had been dating for a year.
The Borderline never sank into your marrow the way she did.
You look at the receipt, heat imprinted, an encoded fingerprint separated with asterisks and reported fuel savings. You wonder, briefly, who will retrieve the fuel savings this month. This little game of back and forth. She’s the one, who so long ago insisted you take one of the cards. So you could save at Kroger too.
Billy Comparetto
© 2009