The Peanut Man
April 7th, 2008About anytime after 6:00 PM the Peanut-adult male [Enrique] can be established in the Place-de Weapons system, Antique, Vera Cruz, United Mexican States; really it is named [the] Los Portal site, the position of the Place that is.
A baseball game detonator on his head, about 23-months older, blue blue jeans, snowy T-shirt, he transports a plastic-crystallization-clear box of peanuts; respective choices for a wide assortment of peanuts: –a bash [strap] cuts across his thorax and back —-, connected to his box of peanuts, he walks this walk daily at outstanding duration hed get his manner
in and extinct of the tables that argumentation up the North face of the part at the Caf (s) that support the plaza country, like a Mexican style-Novel Orleans, one might state.
Really, Vera Cruz, has a small of everything, not only peanuts [ruins, the Disconnect of United Mexican States, live euphony nightly in the Place, etc]; but as I was expression, in and extinct, about and through the tables and chairs the Peanut-adult male moves each night; –fifteen pesos for a little assortment of peanuts on a little plastic dish, and 20-pesos for a bigger plate. All in all, you get your moneys worth; in add, for that price, you would get five-dissimilar forms of peanuts; some round and brown appearing, that appeared like peanuts, some other kind that was retentive and thin, and it didnt look like a peanut to me, but it savorred full, it was more like a tenacious helianthus seed, he named peanuts (so I let it go at that of course). And then there was that fat appearing peanut, that held a light shell on it, my married woman occupied them off for me, they were frustrative, I consider I might have interrupted the tabular array had got she not reclaimed me: and I didnt want to cease up in jail, and court and all that stuff all over peanuts. For some uneven ground, she had got the proficiency, my married woman, what an approval she can be. They were all cured and oiled.
He was a friendly sort of cuss, with a humble smile, –a smartness to it. Each night I would purchase a plate of peanuts, feed them ulterior, take them to the hotel room, when I acquired thirsty, and I ever get athirst, or so it looks after I am ready to name it a night. As I would sit down and use up in the night, Id drink my espresso with a face order of raging Milk, perchance some soup, and a porc sandwich, and of course those peanuts.
Scripted piece in Vera Cruz, United Mexican States, 3/2003 [revised/reedited 1/25/2006 in St. Alice Paul, MN]