BRINKS BONANZA
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 12:34pm
In The No Frills Parking Lot
in front of Nova Scotia Liquor Commission
I eyed up a BRINKS armoured vehicle
as a somewhat elderly blue-shirted driver got out
while I got My Delivery
of lab reports
from South West Health Authority
Then as I crossed the street
in front of Royal Bank of Canada
One BRINKS (was It the same One?)
parked along side —
an armed blue-shirted guy got out with a bag
& a big dolly
& went inside toward the vault
while I went into The Automated Teller Machine
— He came back through
empty-handed
& I got up My Nerve
to ask Him what The Dolly was for —
should I be asking questions?
He said that was OK —
The Dolly was for “coinage” but The Bank didn’t have any
I said “coinage is not used much anymore –”
He agreed & said that’s why
He was turned away today —
did He say “coinage”
to cover for “bullion”?
He looked innocent
Love it – the narrator’s voice, the setting, the exchange, the dialog, the wit – really really good. Page 1 of the novel. š (Ever read Lawrence Sanders’s McNally books?)
Thank you so much, Chagall. I didn’t think it was that good! (I looked up My 9:11 Rooftop Views tonight — NYC Time — thinking of you.)
Haven’t read those books.
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/?cam=tsstreet
Thank you, Chagall!