Side Eye at King Soopers....

 

in a street fight

watch out for the lanky,

wiry types. they never get tired

and have unreal

 pain thresholds. and they can

easily turn a fight into a scrap.

a scrappy fight comes down to who can tolerate

the most pain

before curling up

into a (mostly un) protective ball, therefore

favoring the lanky, scrappy type. dislocated shoulders and broken ankles

don't slow them down, nor busted jaws. 

your best hope is a chokehold. 

 

I think about this as

a lanky, wiry type in camo pants

gives me the side eye

in King Soopers.

he's older, sure.

50s maybe.

but he's got a scar on his right 

cheek that looks like a Nike swoosh, and mouthful of

empty gums where there should be teeth,

so I turn my eyes downward

and run with my groceries to the car.