She
sits patiently waiting, looking at me, a lean lady of the street in Pantai Indah
Kapuk.
I
opened my picnic but she is on the alert and kept her distance even when I took
her some rice on my lunch box cover to share it with me.
She
eats by dainty bits, clean as a lady should. When I offered her something of my
coffee milk, she refused, and went away.
Luckily
enough we didn’t become good friends. I thought, what if she runs with me all
the way some 15 km and on top of that, refuse her a home while I have three
already. Can you picture her?
Then,
as I was sitting, I saw her peeping.
Oh
she is so beautiful, irresistible, enticing, tempting as she peeps through the
grating, kept her face out and up for anyone outside to kiss or pluck her.
This
beauty is … the Kembang Sepatu (literally, flower shoe).
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