she sat alone on a bench watching the clouds roll by

maybe she was looking for an answer

possibly a sign

i don’t know

all i could see was she caught my eye and seemed like perfection

an abstract beauty different from the world she occupied

a glitch in the system

i don’t know

we had spoke a few times

she snorted when she laughed at my inappropriate comments and i found it adorable

she used the proper words in this improper sort of way

and when i asked if it was on porpoise she snorted and walked away

i had been sitting on my own bench reading alone and watching the happy people walking along

admiring and hating them for the easy air in which they strolled hand in hand with loved ones down the winding sidewalk

tossing bread to the geese by the pond

i wanted to scream at them that feeding them bread was horrible for their poor aquatic fowl bellies

but i just glared angrily and it most likely appeared to be the sun in my eyes

i sat back and stared at the clouds for a couple seconds to cool the inappropriate rage that shook me

i don’t much care for people

doing their people things with other people in that insipid people way

i like some people

but they are decidedly usually not people people

that was when my eye caught her staring up at nothing but a cloud that looked like a dragon with a very large

um

tail

in the front

with a bulbous head

it was a penis

a dragon with a penis

i steeled my nerve and walked over to her and said hello

she looked at me in surprise

and smiled that smile that makes me smile just thinking about her smile

she pointed to the sky and loudly pronounced that serpent has the biggest cock she’d ever seen

and i snorted

and she snorted in reply

and together we yelled at the idiots feeding bread to the ducks and geese

for a moment we were those people that normal people wish they could be more like

i asked her if she would care to get dinner

she asked what i had to offer besides buying her a meal

i smiled and pointed at the dragon in the sky and she blushed

nothing like that i answered

and she snorted and said yes