Going Out

Going Out Heather Abner They agreed to meet at the Michigan to see Cowboy Bebop an anime film all the kids are into. And because I'm not his mother or his sister just his brother's babysitter I can't tell him to make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth beforehand. To open the gilded door of the theater for her. To eat popcorn with one hand and hold hers with the other. Halfmy lifetime ago I stood the way she is standing now in the rain in fishnet sleeves outside the theater. Learning how to wait for a boy. From the Borders across the street I watch as his mom lets him off at the corner. 89 90HEATHER ABNER Watch him walk the half block toward her face pale as an empty movie screen pale as a Japanese animated heroine. At fifteen he's already six feet tall and movie cowboy beautiful, blond hair lit gold by the marquee. And as she turns to receive him I turn back to the shelf keep on trying to find what it was I was looking for. 2004 Hannah Stevens ...