Thursday, March 31, 2011

FROM THE PORCH

FROM THE PORCH

I hang out on the front porch keeping the cat company and indulging a habit not permitted within the confines of the house.  From this vantage point I marvel at the passing parade of weightlifters, drifters and dreamers who inhabit the neighborhood.  In this and subsequent posts I will inflict on you descriptions of the more notable characters.  Today, I give you SCARY GUY.

Imagine Rambo with a heavy veneer of Travis Bickle.  He is big.  He has muscles in his shit.  He favours wife beater singlets, weather permitting and has a fine collection of tattoos and piercings to go with his icy black stare, shaven head and menacing posture.  Film directors, take note.  If you need someone to play the psychopath from Cell Block 3 - the guy who sodomizes the Warden, decapitates a couple of guards and leads the prison riot, look no further.  For a modest fee, I will make the introduction.

It should be no surprise the Scary Guy has a couple of dogs.  Drooling pit bulls perhaps?  Rottweilers?  Well, no.  Every day he walks a pair of tiny, frou-frou furballs.  They mince along with him, lifting their tiny legs to splash tree trunks and when they chance to produce tiny little turds, Scary Man carefully stoops and scoops and - I shit you not - then pulls tissue from his pocket and wipes their little asses.

Maybe he's not so scary.  At least not to little dogs.

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