"Moa" is a word in ENGLISH
Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless
birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder
Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and
the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New
Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than
the ostrich.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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