2021.12.20
I give myself ten minutes on the keys
I’d vowed to do the same on the exercise bike
And I think it’d be okay if I did that with martinis
And all the grass I smoke
Smaller doses, maybe, the tips to healthy living,
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I’d pushed the button to kill the engine and pivoted toward the door handle when I caught the immense shadow in the window, the police officer leaning down with his comical mustache and large sunglasses.
He laughed as he gestured for me to roll down the window. “Take it easy, no reason to be startled.”
I laughed in turn, “I didn’t expect to see you there.”
I heard the scrape of another person on the opposite side of the car and looked. A second officer was standing a few feet from the other side of the car, surveying me and the car. I turned my eyes back to the first officer, who placed his fingers over the slot for the window and leaned lower. He looked more directly at me, and held out a manilla envelope. The edges were beaten and scotch taped. “I don’t know what that is,” I said.
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