The Day I Met You I Almost Walked Into A Pole. (Short Prose) Comments

The day I met you I almost walked into a pole.

There's something about seeing for the first time a beautiful person who takes you by so much surprise that the world around you fizzles and fades to a sphere so small it could fit into a bottle on the ocean. And that's about how small I felt that moment, staring at a goddess made of gold in the middle of a boring concrete sidewalk, walking my earthly life with a slightly sweaty T-shirt on, my hair barely brushed and messy over my shoulders. But the universe doesn't pay attention to that kind of thing, so beautiful you continued walking toward me, and I had no choice but to rip my gaze off the path I was walking, which included a rather tall, cylindrical piece of metal right on the edge of the road.
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