Freaks, 2011

‘Hung down with the freaks and ghouls, no apologies ever need be made.’

— Smashing Pumpkins, 1979

illecebrosus retinentia is rare species of the odonata order which sat beside my coffee cup that windy afternoon. I waited at the coffee shop terrace, exactly like you wanted to.

You called me up yesterday, talk for hours as if we haven’t met for decades. It’s nice, anyway, to realize that we’re still conversing from time to time, even though our story ended prematurely — or simply, we didn’t have any to begin with.

So here I sat waiting, at coffee shop terrace across the plaza: your favorite spot of the town.

The insect was also here, sat motionless for minutes before began to flap its wings, flew to my left ear and whisper,

’She will not come. Not today, tomorrow, or the day after. Not for the next million years. Come now, we’ll go home.’

It fled away, zoomed out of the view and since then, no one saw illecebrosus retinentia again. Nor there was any recorded history of the species.