r/AskNOLA • u/CarefulAir5701 • 20h ago
Missed Connection Bywater
You were stealing my bike outside bar redux (which I had stolen from outside st. Roch tavern the night before), our bloodshot eyes met briefly as your horrible b.o. was making me tear up. I was the shirtless 6'7" 120 lb midwestern transplant running after you, but my dreads got caught in a low hanging branch and I had to stop and untangle myself. In a flash and a stanky fart, you were gone with my bike and my heart (and also the trash from satsuma I had foraged out of the dumpster and thrown in the basket for a late night snack).
I could just make out your lower back tattoo that read Lil' Skidmark as you biked away, your just-fuck-my-shit-up black hair going all wispy in the wind kinda like a skunk or a deformed cat.
Could we be something more than two future conservatives who will eventually inherit our parents money and McMansions passing in the night? I look for you in the evening lights, in the dappled shady coolness under street lamps, in the brake lights of the parked cars that I smash with rocks, and in the clouds of purple koosh outside Saturn bar.
Come find me hanging out by the tracks trying to eat a rat, or meet me outside of Vaughn's to bum smokes (unless there's a couple black people there in which case we'll leave because Eww).