Bugs rub their legs. Together in fevered pitch. It trips me out. Never gonna let it out. . Birds they wheeze. And my legs they itch. Yeah, it flips me out.
the clerk smiled as she saw the same nut pick up a personal size grocery basket and head down aisle two. she smiled because periodically this guy would return with a basket full of glade lock and hold room freshener and deodorizer. it's a deodorizer that works on the same principle as a bug bomb. simply push down on the button and it fills the room with a scented fog. the man would buy only about five or six cans at a time. he'd been coming in for about five weeks now. sometimes he would come in twice a week. he seemed like a normal guy. he was kind of balding in his mid thirties wearing a black leather jacket. and he was always so damn dusty something soft about his features. it looked like it was makeup but it was just dust. he paid with a twenty and said thank you and left..
Dust moves off his arms and chest. As the vent window opens in his Volkswagen. Hundreds of Impalas and station wagons. Idle at the train crossing. . The puddles that surround him.