Other Social Circumstances

Other Social Circumstances I'm not sure I understand if understanding is at all possible. The diagnosis is cheap and quick but not necessarily accurate. Nonetheless I try, to define the social circumstances. Ducking in from the wet to keep warm and dry while an acute sun shower washed the cobblestones. I was briefly approached. An attractive girl with falsely colored hair and unusually red lips. I asked her for a drink. A fruit flavored beer, stained the color of informality. I could see clearly through the fog that something was wrong or at least it should be. "I could just cry," she said. But I'm not sure I could understand. She was unknown to me, a momentary illusion. So I sat quietly drinking my beer along with the other social circumstances.