Beautiful and Tragic

[elfs]

There are few things sadder than having a beautiful woman sit across from you on the bus, only to have her ruin your first impression by horking out a huge loogie onto the floor and then shoving a freshly stubbed cigarillo into her mouth. She had perfectly smooth, utterly black skin and a very expertly braided head of kinked cornrows, and when she answered her cell-phone she answered with a stream of unashamed obscentities that revealed way too much about her excessively ordinary love life and her miscreant boyfriend's immanent deportation from the United States.