Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Benjamenta Needle and Thread Co.

In Tabriz Azarbayjan-e Bakhtari a man who worked for the Hamara System Tabriz Technology Company found a mitten embroidered with gemstones and ivory buttons. Alleging it was the fourth whore’s glove, despite the fact it had neither fingers or a thumb, he steadfastly refused to admit it was a child’s wooly mitten, and when push came to shove, furthered declaring it had belonged to the courtesan whore of Louis the X1V, who was renown for her carnal appetite and ability to eat anything raw or partially raw. Corpus Crispy Biscuits were his favorite, sacs of which he bought from the Elbe grocery with the stock photo of Elvis in the condiments section. The proprietor of the Elbe grocery, Horace, a distant relative of Mortimer, the inventor of bake-your-own flat bread crisps, was a fan of toast-you-own waffles, which could be found next to the OXO Cubes in the miscellaneous aisle.

The very same man who worked for the Hamara System Tabriz Technology Company who claimed to have found the fourth whore’s glove and shopped for Corpus Crispy Biscuits at the Elbe grocery with the stock photo of Elvis and an advertisement for toast-you-own waffles, met the man in the hat one particularly humid afternoon the day after the day after Ships Day. He was dressed in a blue pullover chemise and a pair of rust coloured gentleman’s slacks, his feet shod in Polbeg loafers with vinyl uppers and leather bottoms.

The following day a body was discovered behind the Benjamenta Needle and Thread Co. The body, stiffened with the morning cold, sat upright propped against a fichus tree, legs mended together, eyes staring blankly at the world. The boy who found the body, a mayfly of a boy, was out walking his dog, a meager toothless feeble dog. The boy and his dog stared at the body, the dog sniffing. The boy said to the dog ‘…easy come easy go…’, the dog sniffing. Each foot shoed with a separate, albeit identical shoe, a pair of Polbeg loafers with vinyl uppers and leather bottoms, the laces untied, the soles worn through to the liners. The boy poked at the body with a stick, the air abuzz with bluebottles and winged gnats, the dog sniffing.

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