Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Shadow Walkers

Whizzing homeward late after work, I happened on a man, who was no spring chicken, wandering in the wooded shadows with a kitten of a girl. Their bodies brushed over and over against each other, and uttered loose language. When my headlights groped their grovelling guilt, they seemed to shilly-shally, and then they came a yard or two apart, but they kept on waltzing with uneasy gait; he, with a stalking saunter, and she, beside him, with summary steps. The uneasiness betrayed that they knew they shouldn’t be there – a psychedelic fact which surely doubled their thrill. As the brightness slunk away, they quickened their steps again, and were soon lost to my rear-view mirror.

8 comments:

  1. Sombody's daughter being preyed upon without mercy!

    What a jerk of a man.

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  2. Interesting post - as usual - Nana Yaw. Written with a most palpable voyeuristic nuance! Ha ha.
    What I found equally interesting was Posekyere's comment on someone's daughter being preyed on :-) In such matters am beginning to realize there is a thin line between being the prey and the predator. One wonders if we can often times tell by just looking.

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  3. Because their ages are on different sides of the line of adulthood, I am tempted to agree with you, Posekyere

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  4. Lovely description of persons being caught when they least expected it!

    Interesting discussion here as well. How do we know it's not someone's husband being preyed upon by a hungry young woman? Hm...

    Just looking at it from another point of view (not necessarily my own!).

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  5. Yes, that's me, everyone's voyeur. You make me think of things differently now. Am I sure I can tell, with just a glance and a half, who the real victim is?

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  6. Uh hu, Maya throws some more spice in the broth!

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  7. while the discussion is on analyzing the happening...

    i'm actually worried (and why i don't know) that such a glassy happening that happened got INTERRUPTED...

    and i hope the pair found another sweet location to care less...(about what i don't know too).

    hehehehehehehe!

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  8. Novisi, man, you know how much I love your independent mind!

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