Easter Bunny Seen in Las Vegas

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He wasn’t supposed to be there.

Not in that light, anyway—the kind that turns everything into a confession. Neon sweating through the morning, asphalt still holding last night’s bad decisions like a hangover that won’t quit.

But there he was.

Big pink bow at his throat like he lost a bet with God. Bunny ears—clean, too clean—like they’d never touched dirt, never heard a real prayer. Glasses straight. Shirt pressed. Suspenders holding the whole thing together like he still believed in gravity.

Vegas hates that kind of man.

Or maybe it feeds on him.

He stood off to the side of the road where the city starts pretending it’s something else—like it could be a normal place if you just drove far enough. But nothing is normal here. The palm trees are actors. The buildings are liars. Even the sky looks rented.

Cars slid past him, fast and indifferent.

Nobody stopped.

You’d think a man dressed like that would draw a crowd, but Vegas has seen worse. Vegas has seen everything. A bunny with a bow tie is just another shrug in a town built on shrugs.

Still, he smiled.

That’s what got me.

Not the costume. Not the absurdity. The smile. Like he knew something. Like he wasn’t lost at all. Like maybe he’d come here on purpose.

I watched him for a while.

The heat started rising, bending the road, turning the distance into a cheap trick. The city flickered. For a second, he didn’t look ridiculous. He looked… steady.

Like a fixed point in a place that doesn’t believe in them.

Maybe he was waiting for someone.

Maybe he was waiting for me.

I lit a cigarette I didn’t need and thought about all the ways a man ends up in a place like this—ears on his head, bow tied too tight, smiling like the world hasn’t already taken its cut.

There’s a moment in Vegas when everything stops being funny.

When the lights don’t glow—they accuse.

He just stood there, calm as a saint who missed the last train out.

And I realized something ugly and honest:

Maybe he wasn’t the strange one.

Maybe the rest of us were.

I crushed the cigarette, turned away, and let the city swallow me again.

When I looked back—

he was gone.

Of course he was gone.

Vegas doesn’t keep things like that.

Not for long.