The door to the restaurant opens to two creaks separated by the sound of the two beer bottles clinking at a far off table. Two men walk in. They are both wearing long cornflower blue tunics, crisp, as if pressed between the desert rocks for days. Both seem oblivious to the splats of brush strokes coalescing as a woman on the door, looking back with her smudged polka dot summer dress yanked over her plump bottom. The older with a grey white stubble presses his hand against the center of the image, where a door knocker sits explaining the woman's tongue falling out one way over the edge of her lower lip promiscuously.
Her buttocks barely fit within the width of the door like a pair of short shorts in beach town of loose individuals. The narrow valley of her spine dips and rises waiting for a finger to traverse it. As they enter, it is calligraphed on the wall. It says,
Through lust, we will find truth.
Vines coil along the writing, like a lover's hand reaching for the further nipple under the dress. There are patches of vine clumps everywhere like green clouds in a quite wind.
Next to the writing is a bicycle with a yellow frame. The wheels are spinning as wildly as the bicycle is stationary. It has a pink number plate that says,
Slu1 w4g0n.
The host gives a knowing nod to the older man. Table for two. His gaze coasts on the younger one with neck length hair. He studies the other one less and only briefly. Taller, less bulkier, in glasses and a grey white stubble.
The waitress, in a black body suit arrives at their table. Her thighs are composed in their muscularity, small burst of micro-twitches from post work hobby of scaling rocks. The calluses in her palms and wrist share a brazenness. The body suit has been designed as if the silhouette of flames are grabbing at her breasts.
"We don't have your usual," she says to the older man.
His eyes are fixed on his younger friend.
"That's okay, Kaitlyn."
Her name tag says Katniss.
"It's Katniss."
"I want to show my friend here a more open and adventurous side of myself today. How about the chef's special for the day?"
At the middle of the table, an upright parchment says,
Chef's special: Geely Salad.
She scribbles into her pad and turns.
"And how adventurous are you feeling today, sir?"
The long haired man looks composed, in a sharp contrast to the tattoo of the puma wearing a bandanna, crouched along his hammer sized forearm.
"Do you have anything to wipe that smirk of this man's face?"
"We do have rather spicy version of a goulash, sir. It definitely did the trick last time he visited."
"He will just have water." The older man interjects, visibly annoyed at the both of them.
She looks at the long haired man to confirm. He nods with a smile, as if he has gained a compatriot.
"You cannot possibly expect me to give you thoughts on this grant. You know my views. Focauldian discourses are getting drab. His views have been recycled and rehashed too often." The long haired man rubs his cheek with his palm.
"I can't help but wonder if your opinion on him is perhaps because you graduated from Ken State. I have heard the department there often rides the buzz."
"If anything, his previous following was the buzz. I frankly think. Now don't take this the wrong way. My toothpick has more concrete ideas."
The older man's response is slow and less agitated. "I hope you take this exactly the way it seems. But I wouldn't be surprised if your toothpick graduated from Ken State too," he says as he stretches his leg, and adjusts his cock over his tunic. You can see his ankles and his sharply shaped shoes point outward.
"Just yesterday I was reading that book. Remind me the name."
The older man clicks his hand to trigger his memory. "Do you mean Deconstructing Power, Knowledge and Cultural Narrative?"
"That's right. Quite a mouthful. I just struck every instance from his book where it says power and replaced it with social influence. And the pages crumbled like fortune cookie philosophy. How long are you going to slavishly dance in your conferences to this. This lady gaga of the postmodernism."
The older man chuckles.
"Lady gaga. Good one. Did you get that from the Chomsky YouTube video you cuddled your pillow to? Did it go well with your late night parfait?" Not clear who he had more disdain for. Chomsky or parfaits.
The long haired man winces a little, like someone smoking a cigarette suddenly pushed the stub against his chest.
Meanwhile, Katniss's calf length boots beat along the waves of growth rings of the wooden floor. She finally pauses at their table. Her gait is effortless. Straight as a taut thread. While she is mostly expressionless, her nipples have dug in visibly against soft texture of the body suit, like jailed twins trying to escape. Almost as erect as the nipples of the woman crawling on all fours next to her.
"And here is your order. Would you like any articles or aides to go with it."