Love in Line

Newlyweds Agyness Deyn and
Giovanni Ribisi
kiss at the supermarket in 2012.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Maybe they were in their 20's, but just barely,
Wal-Mart shopping with her folks, no...his, I
think, kid sister off to one side with a guy
who didn't seem to mind her braces. The older
version of the same exact rendition (whose teeth did not
need help) unloaded the cart ahead of me, the
Mom who might be used to being asked if she was
possibly the girl's much older sister. Dad was gray
around the gills which tipped me off as to his role,
a tv dad who has an office job and stays in shape
and mostly doesn't know what's going on. He didn't
seem to even notice that his son was making love
behind him, but I caught him showing hints of
grins a time or two, I hope (for his sake) not the
wistful, longing sort. The couple could not
be apart two seconds, it would seem with
groping, searching hands on arms and backs,
then locking lips for no apparent reason (the best,
in my opinion). So darn wholesome looking,
there was nothing inappropriate about the
way they stood or spoke, but something in
the atmosphere around them walled them
off from everyone around. Their private world
smelled sweet and made me smile and wonder
it they'd set a date or was the plan to wait for
something huge to happen first. And would it
last, this passion, the obsession
just to be an Us?

(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013