She's late, the salad girl, I didn't think she was working tonight. But she's brought with her an armful of coins to show me, I can't remember the conversation we must have had, old US nickels struck on square plates, "proofs", another that when I turn over I recognize a Philadelphia Shilling, it has the slogan "Go Away" across the top, and I'm asking her about the coins and the logo and she's talking unintelligibly, handing me framed coins and others for me to look at, always the mumbled explanation...
a miscellany of completely unrelated thoughts...