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Provoca-Tourist

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By Jacob ShermanPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Provoca-Tourist
Photo by Shlomo Shalev on Unsplash

Lucille flagged down a local man, about the service to complain.

He smiled and he nodded through her rant's torrential rain.

She mistook his verbal truancy

for a listener's patient fluency,

but he hadn't understood a single word and was beginning to think her insane.

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About the Creator

Jacob Sherman

The desire to read, and perhaps to write, should be cultivated and nurtured with care throughout every stage of life. For my part I will inject what strangeness and truth that I can into our written history. Expect no constants but honesty.

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