i was working in a jewelry store
as a manager trainee when i
was in my early thirties
a woman came to work there
who was too beautiful
too much about her looks
too much about her clothes
i didn’t pay much attention to her
i had no interest in getting to know her
i’m not about self centered women
and too beautiful doesn’t appeal to me
in any way romantically
cute, pretty, beautiful to me
regardless of whether or not she
looks beautiful to others
works better for me
and why the hell am i
even thinking about this at 80
often women who are too beautiful
are too much about themselves
and unaffordable to most men
but then one day she went out
of her way to talk to me
i was surprised how nice she was
how self centered she wasn’t
we became great work friends
and too beautiful didn’t matter to me
I really liked her a lot
not as a potential girlfriend
she was happily married
i didn’t have romantic desires
or fantasies about her
it was just a surprising friendship
with a woman i didn’t want to know
one of the many women who
passed through my life
some too beautiful
some amazingly nice
some adorably cute
some incredibly pretty
some mean and hateful
many i was with
more than my share
too beautiful at the jewelry store
was one of the most surprising
and one of the nicest
bob boyd