Inside People

OUT

Today I saw some people who seemed like "inside people".

It looked like they broke the fourth wall just to get into ‘supermarket.

The one who came North past the corn chips in my direction? His legs spread in his nylon cut offs/half-long pant shorts looked like he must have reached into the TV and whipped them off his fave football player, mid-play.

The whole look was very “couch to kitchen”.

Either that or “hungover drive thru” and suffice to say -and I know this- decidedly none of my business.

There were three of them. The footwear profoundly unremarkable except that I had never detected the actual tortured souls of the dead screaming from within the composite soles of a couple of shoes before today.

So there’s that.

I looked around .

Had any one else gotten as much of a load of them as I had ?

The bagged out arse of the jeans on the playa who was stocking the hairspray was reminiscent of a cloud that once was full of promising rain but which had - with a wind unexpected and sharply shifting - blown out adopting more of the look of an indistinct pattern in eggs after a night of really rough LSD told me she saw nothing. Kept stocking.

Everything looked sus. But def -while the “2023 cusp of 2024” vibe was INTENSE- most people just held their rage while collecting Optimum points and swallowing tissues to staunch the internal bleeding from the whipspeed bullshit of the cost of food.

The “three from the other set” disappeared behind the pharmaceutical aisle.

Were they seen again??? I hear you braying at me.

MAYBE.

Did any random person paps buying cauliflower crust pizza turn and catch a glimpse of the two very big distinctly inside guys and the equally gobsmacked-to-be-out woman version of them go by him , possibly sweating bullets over the loud cart they’d gotten, as if they were “only trying to fit in!” … and at the same time -it goes without saying , FULL of questions about why they had to fuuuuckin try to?

Who knows?

Did they teleport? and if so… both ways? Only one?

AND… Why?

Ok- not “why”.

I’m not a fool.

I’ve been to the supermarket 140000 times. It's fruitless to dissect the karma of some rando’s choices, many dating back to 1227. Choices which may or may not have resulted in all the bullshit that had them appearing here Dec.30 2023 in the goddam ATLANTIC SUPERSTORE like a lady whose towel had dropped

Here exposed for all to see. Trying to contain the indignity of having to find their own snacks because someone -and they will find out who - was spinning the frequency dial on the wannabe machine and boom here they are IN PUBLICO OMNIBUS AD!

They stood out, not just because they were out but also because most of the other people in the place were obviously so much less occupied about why they were out and in a supermarket and more about “getting groceries”.

Tell you what tho- I saw the fuck out of them.

And it threw me.

Who’s gonna believe me?

I’m not going to the cops. Forget that.

The one with the splayed hairy weird legs and the do-rag material pants almost strode right by me till the two others said ‘Nathan!! This way!” (Loud, but not crisply , more muted and languid.. but edgy).

He (Nathan!) roll/scurried back to them - dressed - as I MAY HAVE EFFECTIVELY CONVEYED-” like he was heading outside cause he thought he threw something Ma needed into the trash”- and went into “door number 3 “- the Pharmacy -with them and thats all she wrote.

Did anyone…???

Wow. Guess not.

I’m not confident anyone else did see them and whether they remain seen as night falls .

They came out .They were profoundly clear to me .

At the end of the day I just hope they got back in.

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