SHE WAS LOVERLY - AN OBSERVATION YESTERDAY, SUNDAY ON 3/6/2016

ANYWAY, THERE WAS A LOVELY WOMAN SITTING ON THE DUAL BUS SEAT WHO GRABBED MY ATTENTION SPEAKING NOT IN ENGLISH, BUT HER LOOK SCREAMED, AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINEE, AND SHE DISPLAYED MUCH ANGER AND PASSION AND I FELT THAT SOMEHOW SHE WAS DIRECTING IT ALL TO ME FOLLOWED BY MANY EXCLAMATION MARKS - WITH THESE SHE WAS MOST EMPHATIC, HER HEAD POINTING HERE AND THERE HER FOCUS DIRECTED TO A TALL, DARK SKINNED YOUNG BLACK MAN WHO I THOUGHT WAS BEAUTIFUL IN AN OSTENTATIOUS WAY VYING FOR ATTENTION - BUT I WAS MORE INTERESTED IN THIS WOMAN WITH SHORT NATURALLY STRAIGHT HAIR, LIGHT BROWN EYES AND UPTURNED NOSE AND MANY MISSING TEETH OF VARYING SIZE AND THOSE SHE DID HAVE WERE CROOKED WITH LARGE SPACES IN BETWEEN THE FEW THAT SHE DID HAVE - AND I THOUGHT, "WE'RE GONNA GET YOU TEETH" BECAUSE WITHOUT TEETH YOU CANNOT ENJOY ONE OF MANY IMPORTANT LIFE PLEASURES, THE CONSUMPTION OF HEALTHFUL FOOD. SHE WAS AN ACTRESS I THOUGHT AND WHEN HER PINK GLOVE FELL TO THE GROUND I RELISHED THE CHANCE OF PICKING IT UP AND HANDING IT TO HER- SHE TOOK IT SEEMINGLY WITHOUT NOTICING ME AT ALL - AND THAT'S HOW I KNEW THAT SHE WAS AN ACTRESS AND SHE CONTINED HER DISCUSSIION WITH ALL HER INVISIBLE LISTENERS- AND SHE TURNED HER HEAD IN MY DIRECTION STILL NOT LOOKING AT ME BUT AT THE SKY AND THE SUN WASHED HER FACE AND I NOTICED HER CHIN WITH ONE BLACK HAIR AND A SILVER ONE, LONGER - AND I SMILED TO MYSELF- KNOWING THAT THIS WOMAN PROBABLY HAD AN AMAZING LIFE AND MUCH MORE OF IT WAS COMING HER WAY AND IT WOULD SURELY BE BETTER THAN HER PAST ONE. (C)COPYRIGHTED BY GWENDOLYN MITCHELL ON MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016 AT APPROXIMATELY 4:30PM ON THE 720 BUS COMING TO THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY AT 90401.