After work you go to the grocery store to get some milk and a carton of cigarettes [...] you can't decide between the Extra Large of Jumbo black olives [...] While you're deciding, the afternoon light is streaming through the windows behind the bank of checkout counters. Take the light inside you like a blessing, like a knee in the chest, holding onto it and not letting it go. Now let it go.
After work you go to the grocery store to get some milk and a carton of cigarettes [...] you can't decide between the Extra Large of Jumbo black olives [...] While you're deciding, the afternoon light is streaming through the windows behind the bank of checkout counters. Take the light inside you like a blessing, like a knee in the chest, holding onto it and not letting it go. Now let it go.