Strikingly thin Chinese woman
Young man sporting dreadlocks
Looking about like a jittery Chihuahua
Talking to a young woman
Serious young black kid
Carrying a guitar case
Rapping along to his iPod
Decorated with paintings of
Nigga this and Nigga that
Flowers and declarations of
Without regard for
The power of love
Any of the people around him
He's telling her he works at a dispensary
Looking nervous
An MMA place in Denver
Much too fat college dude
She's wearing a spaghetti strap sundress
Wearing skinny jeans
That reveals her tattoos
Reading a book
Song lyrics, or lines of poetry
While leaning on a column
Is that something by Dylan
Has spiderwebs tattooed on his elbows
On her left foot?
I wonder if he knows
The young man waits patiently
Those once meant you killed a black man
As she answers her phone
Two older women chat
Turning away from him I can hear her
Amiably and animatedly
Tell the other end that she's on her way
One showing the other pictures
To Boulder
A man dressed in a nice suit
To met someone she met online
Working on a crossword puzzle
The young man doesn't hear
A family of four sitting together
She looks grim as she listens to the other end
All of them look bored
Conversation over, she turns back
A woman in day-glow sweatpants
To the young man with the dreadlocks
Bright magenta like a Hi-lighter
Says she could really use a smoke
Working on a salad in a box
He nods in agreement
Loud speaker crackle and a school teacher voice announces preboarding of people who need assistance, mothers with toddlers, and our men and women serving in the military
Everybody looks toward the gate to see just who those people might be
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