Six eighty seven. Six eighty eight. Six eighty –
"Hi, Jonas."
- nine. Fuck it. I hate when she does that. I mean, I like her, but goddamn it.
"Hi Shelley." Five forty-five. I can see the clock behind, ten, maybe ten and half inches across the face. Paper. Bread. 1538 Market. 1.79 a loaf.
"Your usual?" I nod. She's back there. 64, 65 inches up. 30 inch waist. Weird dimensions. Big tits. Thirty-five, forty cubic inches each in those babies. Goddamn it, they're mighty fine. Figure sucking on a couple of them.
Evening Standard. 75 cents. A dollar down, E58934738, change. 25 cents. 25%. .25 in the dollar.
Fuck it. Fuck you. Like I can help it.
Shelley smiles. She's got poodley hair, three, three and a half circles every two inches. Sort of a melting woman. Soft. Hundred fifty pounds maybe. Hard to tell in that cardigan. $16.75 at Harteman's this weekend only. I saw the flier.
She puts coffee in my hand. She's nice that way. Coffee. 1.25 dollar twenty-five in my pocket –
She stops my hand. I like it when she does that. Touches me.
"It's OK, Jonas," she says. Soft. Kinda husky.
I can't really smile. Fuck knows I want to, but there's these pigeons, six, seven overhead, wheeling, and then it's five, then seven, then six, because the top of the newsstand keeps cutting them off. I never know how many are coming back. Five. Seven. Eight.
"Jonas."
Four. What the fuck? But I really like her.