Close Encounter? Don't Know
based on a true story
Bright and early,
Naldo heads for Sala,
a coffee and wine shop.
New coffee to try,
glass of Malbec,
to try and lounge
at the cafe.
Naldo arrives before Sala opens.
He doesn't mind being early.
Naldo spots an
LA County Health Care Building,
an ISD meetup.
What's ISD?
Naldo heads to the net
to find out.
He gets lost in ambiguity.
It's not even 8am.
(All that matters
for this story is
ISD stands for
Internal
Service
Department.)
It appears ISD
assists in the vid tests.
Naldo spots a familiar face
in this ISD.
This face is a life-group leader
at a relatively new megachurch.
Naldo is aware he works in ISD.
When Naldo drives for Lyft,
he drops off someone
at this place where
he's seen this face.
Anyways, Naldo doesn't attempt
to say hi for two reasons:
it's a vid testing site,
the familiar face is working.
The familiar face would probably
reply with "Get lost."
Now that Sala is open,
Naldo goes inside.
He's told the Long Beach location
serves wine by the glass.
Naldo only buys a Salita,
less hot, sits
on the couch,
looking at the Malbec
he wishes to drink by the glass.
After leaving Sala, Naldo wonders if
he had a close encounter with that
familiar face's abstinence from wine?
Naldo doesn't know, but he practiced
how to see instead what’s there.
Lines borrowed from Anne Carson's "Life."
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