This Year Alas, Your Wallet
Every time you travel down to Mexico you lose something, sun-struck calamities afternoon misplacements while you nap, worries about work happily lost along with intentions to diet, drink less and this year alas, your wallet, its leather and lost pesos adrift among the lavish bougainvilleas. How will you buy new intentions when money, driver’s license and credit cards may float on dark cobbled streets? Even now some miscreant may be celebrating inside your monetary skin flashing his sudden winning hand diamonds dangling from his sombrero rim as he speeds through crowded plazas laughing at one-way signs, waving your license, collecting fines. A sudden knock at your door, there stands the ragged taxi driver from last night a wide gap-toothed smile, your wallet in his hand. Your life unexpectedly returned to you shining, collected and complete like a holiday photograph album. Money, license, credit cards intact all that was lost: your assumptions prejudices and preconceptions. By Margaret Zielinski |
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