Walgreen's

me: What's the difference between baby powder and talcum powder?
stock girl: Baby powder is for the babies.
me: Thank you.

Clark and Diversey

An older homeless man in white patent leather shoes stared at a telephone pole covered with handbills. He was particularly interested in a square blue one. He held onto the bottom of the dangling sheet and read it aloud. "Archers Of Loaf." He then tore it down and let it fall to the ground. Thomas said, "hey, 'sno littering!" The man looked at him and said, "snow littering. Snow. Get a haircut." Then, the homeless man joined a crowd of people walking south as Thomas crossed to the east side of Clark st.

Speak Low

Speak Low sounds like burning hot July nights

where all was still except for trees swaying gently in the breeze

the absence of the sun painted everything in black and white

I remember those nights and the quiet lonely feeling as I hear the sirens