Devastating The Obvious

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  Posted: April 29, 2008, 1:59 pm by dobvious

  
  

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  We were to move in on the second of September . That was coincidentally the day we met and also the day of our anniversary . Ever since  the unanimous consensus  was agreed  upon  - that it had - like a milk tooth come of age and there was a need for it to be   removed  -in this case the friendship tag – to give rise to a more hardened molar tooth called  marriage we had changed the way were called each other . This was after the passionate fizzle and  insatiable nights had slowly given birth to the harsh-hard reality that was life .A waking up to an unkempt bush mess of hair and mascara less brows , an awakening to egg shells and mango peels after a Saturday night and the legendary teeth clutter and gnashing . It was then that I realized it had been four months since I last called her by her real name. Which was much much better than the  coochie pies and honey pots that the infant mind had grown accustomed to. What more it rhymed with my surname . A sure ringer on the cards come the day .
  

  After the rather tedious process of affixing the in law suffix to strangers and after the blessings of the aged , who agreed in principal that since money was ever since the  Hucknall  anthem “too tight  “then the traditional would have  hold water till we struck gold.

  In recent times there had been a new form of the rush for the metal . An aging chameleon had managed to transform a virtual market that would quadruple or even in some cases “do your money in multiples of nines  or elevens” .So successful was here in this task that even the most conservative - think of the Sioux and their claim over the Black Hills here , had slowly started giving up claim for their land and warmed up to the market . Any thought of having more money without the toil was a welcome to anyone .From the snowy slopes of the Mount that gave the country it’s name to the  bitter banks of rivers laden with famished crocodiles , there was suddenly no need to graze or till .After all we were in it for the money . So the reasoning goes if  it can be made without breaking a sweat - why not .

  Why don’t we give it a try , she had suggested at one point . Rather than shooting it down in my own familiar self I  found myself agreeing to this  and soon we were in line and all set . If it triples then we would do a full Victorian , horses and the works - she would chide at times , if it doubles then a beach montage would be just fine .

  And so we started waiting for the day to come - with the anticipation of  a born again groom waiting for his born again bride – who due to the nature that dictated their courting process prohibited him from seeing her privates until this day – the day of the honeymoon .

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  During the times when wishful thinking clouded better judgment we had hoped to count from back and have it as the day of the first birth . That would mean then intensified efforts come the sixteenth or was it to be the seventeenth of December . Either way there was this grand satisfaction that we each envisioned to achieve were we to make it so . As we held our palms all stretched trying to figure out what the palm reading would make of our fortunes , she reminded me of the promise by the rock

  Oh that I said as I tried to match her heart line with mine . Apart from the separation of our palms it was forming a clear stretched line .

  The seagulls were by now retreating to the reefs or whatever place they had their nests , ever since the bitter pills swallowed in the heart of the break up from Juliet – the Aquarius princess as she rightfully called herself the interest in birds has died down with each passing day . The thought of a return is  quickly quashed by the now good ridden thought of her nags . I smile to myself with the thought of how easy it is to love and lie , forget and trust , forgive and have it all over again .

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