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On the wall of the bar, above my boothMixed in with the other pictures, the kind you usually see on the walls of bars and sometimes in the photo albums of friends, pictures of people with their arms around each other, smiling, friends laughing, visiting nobility in the shape of actors and musicians, often posing with the owner, everyone smiling and happy, having the time. I notice one that is different, and seems out of place. It depicts a young man, like any other man and every other man I know, his head is down in his hands, as he sits in the booth with his shoulders slumped, half-empty pint in front of him. You can see one side of his face, his expression unsmiling and his eyes downcast. And from the opposite , top corner of the picture comes a young woman's head. You can tell she is standing, leaning towards him because her head and only her head is in the shot. Her lips are pursed as if she were in mid-sentence. She, too, is unsmiling.
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© Raymond Abruzzi