Annie the Ambling Prostitute
The prostitute(s) are back!
OK, well I haven’t seen more than one of them, and she doesn’t seem to be standing in the same place all the time like before, but its definitely her. She is the 60 year-old chain-smoking Asian one. I’m not sure if she’s actually 60, if it is the chain-smoking, or if it is a combination of the two, but she is unpleasantly thin and wrinkly… from 50 ft.
For those of you who don’t remember, my apartment used to have front row seats to a veritable porn-ucopia of prostitutes for fetishists. There was the old, chain-smoking Asian one; the pregnant Hispanic one; the crack-whore "blond" white one; and the snappy potential-dominatrix black one.
Then, one fairly uneventful day, the street walkers (who never did much walking) didn’t come back. The traffic pattern got a little better, the bar lost a little business, the dealers moved on to greener pastures, and I got blinds because the peep show had ended.
But today was a red-letter day! Today I had a small housewarming for my coworkers, and went to show them where the prostitutes used to stand. And what to my wondering eye should appear, but the very harlot I used to hold dear! (When I saw her I made such a clatter, they sprang to their feet to see what was the matter.)
I wonder whether she just happens to be the most gristled and weather-beaten that she is back walking the streets before the others (she indeed is walking now, up and down the block) but I’m sure time will tell. I’ll see if I can get a picture of her when it is light out so you can all revel in my neighborhood.
