Ask Miguel who hands you
your low dose statin (just in case
even though many people say
don’t take statins Who Really Knows)
how he became a CVS employee.
Feel free to ask him this
if there is no one waiting behind
you in the line (I was there mid-afternoon)
and Miguel who is entirely tattooed
mostly with fish although he doesn’t
fish never went even once says that he
is studying to be a tattoo artist and then
he asks if I would like to be one of his
practice subjects and I say what would
you tattoo on me and he says don’t worry
it won’t be a pill of any kind and I say
what about fish and he says you don’t seem
to be the fish type. Am I wrong?
Funny and real and a pleasure
Angela, a clerk in my neighborhood grocery store, has a big octopus on the inside of her forearm. One day I asked why. She told me she likes octopuses and it was a tattoo that would cover another she didn't want anymore.