Do I look lonely?

I see the shadows on my face,

People have told me I don’t look the same,

Maybe I lost weight,

I’m playing hooky,

With the best of the best,

Put my heart on my chest so that you can see it too,

I’m walking the long road watching the sky fall,

The lace in your dress tingles my neck, how do I live?

Death of a Bachelor blasted through my headphones as I waited in line. My auburn hair tied messily, upon reaching the board teen at the checkout I removed my headphones.

“Hi” I say

“Hey” she responds dully

She scans the bread and milk,

“That’ll be five dollars,”

“Uh thanks, here’s ten.”

“Thank you for your business,” she sighs handing me the change. “have a nice afternoon.”

“Thanks, you too.” I smile taking the change and grocery’s exiting the corner store.

Was it really already after noon? I checked my phone putting my headphones back on, it was already one o’clock. I headed to the park to read and listen to the birds. After sitting down under a willow tree, I remove my headphones once more, unfortunately it would seem that a group of gossips had decided to sit at the table across from me.

“Merry did you here about Claire?” one of the women asked.

“No, what happened?” Merry questioned “Please do share, Betty.”

“She was decaying, so they took her away. To you know.”

“Such a shame she had children as well, I wonder what will become of them?”

“I’m sure her husband will take care of them.”

“Didn’t you here he ran away with that young Scarlet girl.”

“What!? No.”

With a heavy sigh I placed my headphones back over my ears, I would rather no nature noise than nature noise and a couple of gossip girls.

It wasn’t so much the topic but the fact that I didn’t want to listen to the life story of all of there friends. Really all of us are bound to end up like poor Claire, everyone of us is slowly but surly heading towards decay and the moment that decay is found we will be carted off to burn. Scientists believe that if you’re around the ‘walking dead’ your more likely to begin your own decay faster, but I’ll be honest I’m almost certain that all of them were psychotic and just wanted to kill people.