The unleavening
Earlier today i got into my sandals and started the car
this would have been before dawn
i remember the sun coming up
there was no one on the road and it was like i had the whole town to myself. i headed into downtown atlanta, sort of daring someone to show their face, but i didn't see a soul.
i parked my car on an overpass above a 14-lane wide stretch of completely deserted expressway
and that's when the matzoh balls came
hundreds of millions of them ranging in size from golf ball to twice the size of a basketball
the squishing sound they made as they rolled over every surface, horizontal AND vertical
they passed over the undersides of the overpass
ignoring me, they encased everything as far as the eye could see like soupy spherical hamsters, teeming.
swarming
and then they were gone, squish-rolling out of sight to the south, toward florida.
my car was gone. i was naked.
i stole a muu muu from an unattended street vendor's cart and caught a cab home.
my car was parked where it had been the night before.
i ran inside and got some money to pay the cabbie.
i washed my face with a towel, but i didn't let the water touch my hands
this would have been before dawn
i remember the sun coming up
there was no one on the road and it was like i had the whole town to myself. i headed into downtown atlanta, sort of daring someone to show their face, but i didn't see a soul.
i parked my car on an overpass above a 14-lane wide stretch of completely deserted expressway
and that's when the matzoh balls came
hundreds of millions of them ranging in size from golf ball to twice the size of a basketball
the squishing sound they made as they rolled over every surface, horizontal AND vertical
they passed over the undersides of the overpass
ignoring me, they encased everything as far as the eye could see like soupy spherical hamsters, teeming.
swarming
and then they were gone, squish-rolling out of sight to the south, toward florida.
my car was gone. i was naked.
i stole a muu muu from an unattended street vendor's cart and caught a cab home.
my car was parked where it had been the night before.
i ran inside and got some money to pay the cabbie.
i washed my face with a towel, but i didn't let the water touch my hands