Devil’s boutique
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004OK, laughing time is over: I met the devil. He is working as a tobacconist in France, he works overtime, late a night. He also sells books and souvenirs, and has a nice boutique on the ‘rue du pont’. He wears a large moustache, looks like a happy grandpa, with a huge fluffy dog, and smiling eyes. In front of his boutique, sitting on the narrow pavement, is always a young punk begging. Sometimes, it’s a boy-punk, sometimes a girl-punk. It changes a lot, but there invariably is a young punk of some sort begging on the narrow pavement in front of his boutique. I wonder what he does to them punks. He probably has a punk-factory in the back of his boutique, and uses them to collect money and information about good and evil people.
When a nice looking girl enters his boutique, he wraps her into a strange gaze and uses his devil powers to touch her. I let you imagine what kind of touches the devil can do. I witnessed of one these scenes one night. A thin brune girl stood in line in front of me, and all of a sudden, she started to get mad, and shouted to cut it out. “I know you’re touching me, I can feel it” she said to the moustache devil, with red little dots in her eyes. He did not answer, and offered his fixed smile. The dog yawned with a high pitched squeaking sound, and started to smile, as dogs sometimes do. I did not understand what was going on at first. It looked as if I was the only one that noticed how strange this situation was. Nobody else in the boutique seemed surprised.
I met the devil that night, or at least, one of his fellow employees. I bought a pack of tobacco from him, and swore to myself that it was the last time I stepped into his boutique.