2.27.2012

ROAD JOURNAL: Pregnant Hippy in Happyland

Happyland, CT -- Across the hill from the Res

This very crunchy hippy girl with a big belly hiking down the road today.  Her clothes look home-sewn.  She has those knotty white girl dreads that lose color.
I imagine she is a no white foods*, no meat, vegan true believer.  A woman, a young woman, who has redesigned herself completely, and such, does not suffer the punishment that comes from a bad diet.  This hippy is in balance -- she looks pregnant the way fake pregnant looks on TV: lean little girl with a bulge.
I find myself laughing at her.  Why?  Because I'm imagining the nasty fat little man currently living in her belly giving a kick, and demanding prime rib.
All the religious discipline to healthy living, the crunchiness from on high, there's a demon inside that rips your identity, and renders it to gloop.  That baby needs to get his blood up.  It's a funny bit, this girl, hiking around like the living embodiment of Mother Earth, sitting in a corner booth at Sammy's Roast Beef, her tears rolling into the jus.


(* sugar, flour, dairy, you racists)

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