How You See It
Men can be beautiful. So this is a story about beautiful men, or rather, a beautiful man. A man of Perfect legal years, not young enough for sling bags and fake chains around his neck, nor old enough for a front shirt pocket where everything goes in first with a pen always hanging there, sometimes a rosary around the neck, a tucked-in T-shirt, safari boots, and khaki pants, just old enough and defiantly happy. It's also a story about words and their definition. Not from a dictionary, but from a perspective. Words are like chameleons, and it's all about where they sit that you can define the colour. It's also a story about familiarity and and it's effects. So it's a story about a lot of things. Of course, you never expect a story to be about a specific thing. Like a story about mangoes, a story can never be entirely about mangoes, or watermelons, or sneakers. A gentleman is standing in a Matatu that is almost two times filled. It's rush hour, and everybody is la...
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