Audio Book Essay: The Wallet. By Allen Woodman.
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Middle Aged (35-54)Transcript
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wallet by Ellen Woodman. Tired of losing his wallet to pickpockets, my father at 70 makes a phony one. He stops the phony wallet with expired food coupons and losing Florida lottery tickets. And a fortune cookie fortune that reads Life is the same old story told over and over in a full length mirror, he tries the wallet in the back pocket of his pants. It hangs out. Fan with desire. All oyster, he says to me, No, pearl. We drive to the mall where he says he lost the last one. I am the wheel man left behind in the car on my father cases, that apartment store. He's an old man trying to act feeble and childlike, and he overdoes it like stage makeup on a community theater actor. He's even brought a walking stick for special effect packages of stretch socks. Plums only slip from his fingers. He bends over farther than he's been in years to retrieve them, allowing the false billfold arise like a dark wish and be grappled by the passing shadow of a hand. Then the unexpected happens. The thief is Chase Minor, 10 of sales clerk. Others join in the thief subdued. The clerk holds up the reclaim wallet. Your wallet, sir. Your wallet As she begins opening it, searching for identification. My father runs toward an exit. The work Lis articles float to the floor. Now my father is in the car shouting for me to drive away. There will be time enough for silence and rest. We're both stupid with smiles. Any shouting, Try fast, drive fast.
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Narrator, Articulate, Calming, Comforting, Inspirational, Intellectual