An Oil Change
ย A Latino couple rests on the dark-gray leather couch opposite me. His thoroughly stained white painterโs pants and Sherman white sweatshirt somehow contrast and complement her matching light-gray sweat suit. An Orthodox couple with a toddler sits on burgundy cushion chairs nearby. A rhythmic pounding blends with Asian TV and a muffled radio broadcast. A Mobile banner torn in the middle flaps in a passing breeze.
An attendant tells me I have a head-casket leak as well as an engine oil and transmission fluid leak.
How convenient.
white Cirrus cloudsโฆ
budding maples swaying
in another breeze
First published in Image Curve, October 7, 2014
Photograph by Ryan McGuire
For dVerse OLN #207, Thursday, November 2, 2017
Frank J. Tassone 
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