I took a shadow out on a date last night. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPk7C8Aai9X
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIs7ocWHeL
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEMW9cVEG8
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiS72oxHSyy
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1jbNJARwy
blurry silhouette945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEE9SYJqoq
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmOO4XggXG
after staring at a bright light.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHA6BgKBPy
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnPPsdQxMW
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanU3XKFxAo
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsF50RELDOd
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY15k1gaSyM
blotchy green and purple,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9zvuU5vYI
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bRPSUM7Kz
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8dH2rG9TL
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAj84rtj7JG
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7J81fhir2
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBA7p7bPSG
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfgYY5z7mR
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjmnqHoygK
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVCyUxIY00
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgTwNBfOvO
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3uLhAhIaW
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFlsDkWh7n
which was for the good of everyone. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFESk3TRAEH
They’d gotten a little rowdy,
if you know what I mean—
of course you do.
Doesn’t everyone?
I’d gotten separated from my date, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTkvBNPr1g
the shadow, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeXKRAtcoW
in the chaos, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCCg8cwzNW
so I sat next to a little old lady945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNw7K63UBu
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00Hjx0tsBV
It did get more interesting, too, and945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAp7DBmquE
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2kr8mJLBZ
that the shadow had gotten left behind.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfcQCKwcEXs
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5j1bq3ZHW
which may have been short for something else,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSlfIyzz8F
and her grandson as Other Demons945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NktIvbw7g
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqvAWvVlL5
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HkLK7dSMF
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvrmYguDI5
or something.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunenXHGaTj
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWYu9kFbg0
and to be honest I was unsure of what to do.
I began to realise why they’d been sitting a little apart from the others.
Over the course of the night, I remembered my grandma’s advice.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqKmNTJpcv
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0UG8CVjdQ
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXSMe8bM3b
you know, get to know them a bit.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGlq7XyZ2E
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCatAx5zJ3
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCHUah8g9H
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7Zlh36Pns
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPLZwpDcno
You’re welcome to come around sometime,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorytYc7a7C
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymez6KuAsH
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsw7uUVb8s
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOE4I7LyDIl
and went back to their home, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fSOPlzzCw
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJ4DsyG2OU
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWORjLBdEmZ
to feast on some lonely children945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXdUTQTCgI
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvha3gYt8C
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdKhhmKTdK
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfN11EUvlJD
between a battered Toyota 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzo9qz4v5Ii
and a hulking four wheel drive.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF31p5VZR9r
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lk3FbxgCX
up and down office buildings,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjQwKYAuwI
through the desert,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1EkqQvNfL
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEf7psbb2Pb
across a river, 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomidbgyMjr
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7505edF7r
of my suburban house.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCemzf7GVb
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5U8KaIEi9
and fell asleep on an old white mattress945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZutxc2nXT
under a fading southern cross.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfp3JI3OkVN
Happy Australia Day945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNoj3RlfGNT
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