Reports from The Gothic : Passerbys and Sightings / One hour drinking morning coffee on October 20th / Same old people / Same old Traveler’s Notes / But this is what I saw

A couple from England who surely have taken note of my Ian McEwan novel laying on the table
 /A pale Finnish father matching chalky religious stone walls
 /Barcelona cops on motorcycles looking tough and gay

Every person with a different thing to accomplish in the next hour swimming by like schools of sardines -sardines in a can -hours laying in layers of oil
 / Particles of daily life caught in her makeup / 
A well polished button on a man’s shirt / a collar as stiff as origami and paper airplanes

A breakfast of toast and croissants entering from their stomach to their small intestine – coffee stains sticking to the plaque between their teeth to remain until nighttime brushing / 
Thongs riding up on them – old socks sliding down on them – the stride adjusting
 / Women deciding they chose the wrong outfit and being stuck in it all day / 
Old man with rolled up boring newspaper full of identical opinions to that of his friends

The challenge of that mother pushing her son in a wheelchair around medieval streets
 / The cleaning lady in purple -the cleaning lady who steals
 / Middle aged men carrying horns and brass as hollow as unfilled cream puffs – bellies as soft as babies they didn’t have / 
Happy large dutch woman as round and colorful as a clog

Someone from New Jersey whose overconfident daughter plays basketball and met Robert De Niro once in Tribeca before it got covered in ash
 / White french boys with afros – DJ disco party funk funk yeah / 
A woman who only knows her son in one context but it’s always like that / 
Lady all in brown with a goat limp and a knowledge of every ghost story there ever was
 / The one that lives up to looking like Isabella Rossellini and talks to her mother by phone everyday

Crates /carts / boxes / filled / things to / sell / compost / destroy / mark-up / mark-down /repair / hide / lie about / trade / hustle / install / drop-off / fix / ditch / ignore

Yogini woman in white chasing after the girl with frizzy pink hair and leggings covered in polyester galaxies /
Leather and pleather and plastic and bodies underneath sweating out parties into cuffs and cheap linings

Short full faced ruddy girls from the Northern countries in mom jeans with matching brothers / 
An out of place red baseball hat – maybe his favorite hat -his old hat faded from south american storms / 
Correos -the Spanish mail lady hitting about 5 apartments per hour and stopping to talk to dogs
 / Japanese and Chinese with painted red lips and delicate skin systems that react poorly to alcohol

The action picking up / then slowing down

Tired walkers in search of menus and hospitality and somewhere to, ‘Come on we really need to just sit down I don’t care what kind of food it is.’

Spiritually lost man in hardhat closing the door – thinking about porn

The entire family from Germany / The entire family from England /The entire family from Russia
/The entire country of Germany / The entire country of England / The entire country of Russia

Him – who use to sail boats in The Costa Brava but – with force -was moved to the city when he impregnated her that weekend
 / Slippery thick street stones and poodles lifting legs onto history
 / Just the right retro shaped ass for the pencil skirt – walking hand in hand with 
the FC football jerseys and copycat new balances

The painter slash musician with multiple ear piercings gone construction worker to pay his child support / 
A humming buzzing machine sanding away at a building facade – another melody in the noise pollution genre / 
Wishful idealists about to get their wallet stolen at approximately 16:00 today upon exiting the yellow line at Jaume Primer
 / Glamour lesbians with boyish haircuts -pointed shoes and fox faces

Full god given mediterranean lips glowing in authenticity between the affordable silicon redoes / 
Smart phones misleading people to dead end surprises
 / The same muzzled albino dog with its man – then its woman -then its man – then its woman -passing red eyed
 / People who have left something very willingly behind and don’t want to look back