novembre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 148 the cockatoo has feet like a dinosaur. his talons could puncture easily if they were trimmed but he waltzes along the kitchen counters, looking for library books to consume. three down, the bindings eaten whole. the library is consequently not speaking to my mother. when i was twelve he'd sit on my butt as i watched television, but since becoming a teenager he keeps one eye on my whereabouts at all time, ready to fly off his perch, screaming at me. the schnauzer looks like a mouse and a rabbit had sex and had her. handed her over to us. she pees under the pool table in regular intervals. she is ten years old but still referred to as the puppy. the labrador has wiry black hair that blends into the sofa at night except for a patch of chocolate on the tip of his tail. he readily advances upon surf, regardless of tide. i don't know if he is one or two, he having been introduced to the nuclear family while the siblings were already displaced to the bay area. i do know that he practically broke my mother's back one night, and that he fancies his hundred pound self a lap dog. if you make a kissing noise around him, he will bombard your face with his. my parents are watching a roger moore james bond movie on TNT and i am thinking about how all the thrift stores have been picked clean. it is worse than san francisco. old jerseys are priced at eight dollars and 1940s housedresses at fourteen. i found two sweaters, hidden, at the regular dollar prices. one reminds me of jenn, an off-white cardigan, ladies, wool, with brown and green flowers. the other, jeff, old man with thick stripes. because my torso is not that long i will have to shrink it, hot water, like heather instructed me. i think that i am missing my friends and this longing is manifesting itself inside my purchases. i looked and looked, but couldn't find one that reminded me of you. 9:07 pm - 07.02.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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