The Fog

I was about to go to bed tonight but felt a little hot so I opened a window. When I looked outside I saw how foggy it was and decided to go for a walk. It was really foggy and the street lamps were all blurry. I walked and walked about town and realized I hadn’t been out this late in many months. I seem to have forgotten how different of a crowd prowls the city after midnight. Mostly a lot of degenerates and security people. What happens to an entire city at night?

 

Everybody is home asleep, like I would have been had I not walked to the window. I would have been dreaming. The city was dreaming while I walked in the shadow of day.

 

It is not a pleasant experience. The only way it can be a pleasant experience is if you walk through the sleeping city as though you too are in a state of sleeping and dreaming.

 

I am home now, typing this. I’m about to eat the snack I picked up at the 24-hour pizza deli. I can smell it, very greasy stuff. I also got a can of Coke. It is covered in humidity.