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march (5)

 <march>     You can tell when someone recently cried, all you have to do is look at their eyes. When I saw her under her brightly colored umbrella in the gray intersection, I knew someone or something broke her heart. She fought against the downpour coming down her eyes, whilst the umbrella did the same from above.      The concierge told me to come back after a while, a while that he did not define. Without any choice, I left through the wooden front door, the bells chiming as I departed. When I left the hotel, the rain clouds came and dominated the once blue skies. Some motel guests rushed past me to take cover in the lobby, a place I knew I was not welcomed. Without anywhere else to go, I stepped into the rain. I did not have an umbrella, so I got a well deserved shower, cleaning away God-knows-what. Without anywhere else to go, my right foot led as my left followed into an unknown. I meandered around the town square because I had nothin...

intermission (4)

<intermission> Sitting in a motel lobby in front of the desk with a variety of brightly colored pamphlets from the Department of Tourism, he finds himself half-awake on the sectional couch. An atomic family from the suburbs of Minnesota stare at the horror of a seemingly limp body inhabiting the same room as them. It's only a groan from that body that prevents them from calling the city morgue.  The clean cut father begins a conversation with the motel's receptionist. "What's wrong with that fella?" The receptionist looks over his desk, looking at the unkempt man at the seating area. "Oh, him? He wasn't able to pay for another night in an actual room, so I let him rest on that couch while my manager is not working. The man is quite nice when you strike a conversation with him, and he does not really cause any trouble. Anyways, did you have a reservation?" "Yeah, it's under the name "Walters." But seriously, are you gonna let ...