novembre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- when nervous girls caulk hippies came over downstairs and started a drum circle on the back patio. my neighbors cirlced around them, a strange orbit, overly-slouching shoulders and acting more stoned than usual. they stood outside an altered greatful dead concert on saturday and suddenly lights are dimmed and eyes are half-lidded. i sat on my porch with a parka over pajamas petting nervous cats. bella is not used to hippies. inside, manny and the man worked in the bathroom for three evening hours. taking out the ancient toilet, poking at the pipes, guessing them to be at least sixty years old. they were fixed sometime in the eighties, caulking glue around each joint like cream cheese slathered on a bagel. what you fix haphazardly eventually breaks again. 10:29 pm - 12.10.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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