Sunday, March 5, 2017

Central Park

Sebastian, www.westsiderag.com, February 9 2017

A Proposal on Bow Bridge


I was just stomping across Bow Bridge in Central Park, carting home my groceries from Fairway, when the man in front of me went down on one knee and proposed to the woman he was with. He presented a ring, and everything. At least they did this in private, I thought, not like doing it on TV at the basketball. But then I realized I had been the only witness of this incident and as I did so their expectant stares landed with full force on my unsuspecting consciousness. I stomped on, ignoring them, refusing to be an involuntary extra in their B grade movie.

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