He was sitting in front of Rumfish, where I'd come to see a friend. The Frenchman just happened to be there, an incidental player in scene 7-B, "I visit John." I didn't get his name.
He drank red wine out of a highball glass. His face was strangely familiar. Small dollop of hair on an otherwise smooth skull. Bone structure, the roundness of his nose. The blue-in-the-gills common to men of a certain age with five o'clock shadows. He turned his head, presenting profile. A near spitting image of an old friend, long not seen. Fallout from an ill-advised romance.
I blinked, wondering if it was my imagination. He remained a near doppelganger of my old friend. I wished briefly for a camera, but in the end was glad not to have it. Some images are best let pass.
2 comments:
Hoh-hoh, Ve Franch, we luv zis Snarky Tofu becoz hof enrties like zees one. Ze mimes, sey are funny, no? Everyone luves mimes, and ze Franch know sumthink about zee love.
May Snarky Tofu alwayz exzeest--or France will declare war on America. Of course zince we are France we weel immediately surrender, but still...war, no?
Dear Mr. Brown,
I am Joseph Kawyatt, spokesperson for MUMS: Mimes United for Mimery Sciences. We are worried about the ways that you stereotype mimes in this post as wearing shirts with horizontal stripes. That is a decades old slight that we have fought long and hard to dismantle. We hope that in the future you will "think outside of the box" rather than pretend to be stuck in one (as we so often do) when discussing mimes.
Still MUMS loves your blog, but we're sad that you are taking longer and longer between entries. Or on those days are you miming your posts? You could film those and post them--perhaps they would become memes. Mime memes!
In any event, have you thought about working with one of those travel cooking shows? It seems like a natural connection for you!
We hope Snarky Tofu never comes to an end or we would have to take the streets and have nonstop marathon sessions in which we mime walking against the winds of change!
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