“Excuse me, sir. Can I borrow you for a minute?” asked some
lady I don’t know at the Newark airport. “Not really,” I said. I was screwing
around with a pay station from the late ‘90s, trying to pay for a coffee from
the mid-twenty-one-teens.
What decade is 2016? Someone get on that.
“You,” she said, pointing at me. “I said can I borrow you
for a minute?”
I spoke loudly and clearly. “Not really.”
She left me alone.
Yeah, so New York City – la manzanita grande. It’s like the
world decided to have one main city, and this is it. I had a fine time. I ate
three salmon on bagels with cream cheese and avocado. Juli pointed out to me
that I enjoy my sushi the same way. I took some trains and dragged some
suitcases around. Team Pom Pom and Team Radio Flyer managed the Tricklock show
at The Brick. The same folks had some alligator pizza with the Albuquerque
transplants and some city folk.
Dude, Cuenco. How great is that chick?
I can’t be dropping all the names, but there were some swell
people there. My night ended with a bottle High Life in my hand. Weird.
Juli and I went to go see Abigail Browde’s new work. That
woman is pretty interesting to me. I have never been disappointed with any of
her experiments. Unique new work.
Hang on a sec. Drew just came over and I’m going to let him
read this and see if I forgot about anything.
Okay, I got a couple of notes. Drew didn’t quite get why I
called 2016 the mid-twenty-one-teens, and he said, “They’re called lox.” I told
him that I was pretty sure they’re called salmons.
Oh look. Here’s Juli.
She is satisfied.
I have no idea where Catherine is. We Pom Poms need a little
time to call our sisters and such every once in a while.
I have no idea how I should plan my sleep time. I’m leaving
for Holland at sixish and arriving at sevenish and checking in at noonish and
the flight is sevenish hours. I have two sleeping pills and if I miss another
free tomato juice on the plane, I am going to freak out.
Somewhere in New Mexico, my mother is praying for me. Please
no one else pray for me. Let’s see if she can handle it on her own.
Later gators. I’ll see you in Europe. We could be euros just
for one day.
