Orange Blue White

by Johnny K. Parsons

The man in the orange t-shirt, blue shorts and white sneakers walks around the track. His back is hairy - you can tell by the way his longish upper-back hairs stick up and out from under his frayed, sweat-soaked collar. He's tallish, over six feet, and has a fat, bouncing stomach. In wintertime, he doesn't wear a jacket or a hat or even pants, he wears the same maddening getup: orange t-shirt, blue shorts, white sneakers. Everyone hates this guy, that's my theory. Maybe I'm projecting.

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Johnny K. Parsons was born in August in Van Nuys, California a long, long time ago.