difference of couples…

We observe other couples, either individually or as couples within other groups out of the corner of our eyes, always surprised by the diverse combination: a young woman with a nerd with strange glasses, an idiot with the face and body of an angel and a woman as cynical as diogenes, a hard lined faced gangstress sitting with her policeman husband, a circus bound midget with a perfect body and a stupid philosopher extolling the virtues of objects. It’s almost enough to say that about and with technocrats, the young woman after all is wishing she was at her keyboard finishing the codelines she was writing earlier, her fingers touching the white keyboard, almost soundless, only the sound of the keys moving as her fingers depress them, but instead is with the nerd enjoying each others company. Or the idiot not understanding anything the cynical woman is saying, for which she has become grateful. We of course look at them being together and feel deeply uncertain, this really shouldn’t be how this romantic scenario ends,the finale disappoints. So here we are turning our attention to the beautiful people sitting around and distantly watch them as they do not perform but simply be. And then there are others who are brought together through an accidental shade of colour, greys, blues or reds, which they are prepared to wear together in the dry moments after its rained and the streets and squares are still wet. Otherwise we might be thinking about why they are still together, armed as they are with words, knives and guns in hidden holsters under their jackets and coats. Beneath this the regret that the only things in the would they love are each other, and perhaps the children they have at home, in this imperfect world. And that couple standing by the bar who we are observing from the corner of the bar who are also are being digitally recorded, will they be recorded in bed later, their lovemaking recorded and sent as a digital file to his new-aristocratic mother, beyond their bodies moving, through the window in the background an owl is approaching, through the other the water is rising with the goldfish swimming.