My September 5th, 2025 dream.

I was in some city. 

Choose one.

It was night.

People, strangers, all around.

I wandered, street after street.

I found a vacant bench, sat myself down.

A good looking woman, perhaps fifty, wrapped in a beautiful fur coat (it was cool autumn - I imagine), sat herself beside me.

A minute passed in silence.

She turned to me, "do you dance?" she queried.

I turned my head to look at her attractive, made-up face.

"Yes, I suppose I do.", I answered politely.

Our faces were close.

We stood up, together, facing each other in that semi-lit city street.

She stared at me, looking me up and down.

With a straight face, no smile, no real emotion, she spoke, looking me in my eyes.

"You're too old for me", straight faced, she said without hesitation.

Then she turned and walked away into that still night.

Strangers, younger folk, standing nearby, huddled together, overheard her words.

All of them let out quiet laughs, chuckles. "Oh ho!" "Whoa!" staring at me for a moment, while I watched that woman walk away.

I laughed quietly inside my mouth. Turned, walking up the street, in the opposite direction.  

 

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