Saturday, May 21, 2011

Abundant Sunshine

This morning, the light fills our little apartment in Queens in a way that makes me feel hopeful beyond any shred of reason.  Nothing particularly special is scheduled for this day -- unless you are of the belief that the world is coming to an end.  I think that's pretty special... and I don't even know which end of that boxing match I want to be on.  Either, I float up to the sky and feel 'chosen' - a middle-child's dream come true- or I am left to suffer the ruins of our planet and forge a new world with the little that we have -which doesn't seem that different from what we're already doing.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

where's the vino? where's the bean?

where's the vino
I've given up drinking for a while.
(Waiting)
No, I am not pregnant.  Naturally, this is the first questioned I am asked after I drop the on-the-wagon bomb.
No, not pregnant, just need a break from my favorite escape.
No, I have not given up coffee too.  That would be cray-cray.  (The "bean" in the title refers to the me-bean, not the coffee-bean.)
The vino has been released of her duties for the time being.  The bean is laying low.
There is, however, a quarter-bottle of red wine on the kitchen counter, which on my (drinking) watch could never have survived the days between last Thursday --when it was opened and so cooly abandoned by the male guests we had that night-- and now.  The quarter that remains is probably embittered. With its label directed ever-so-slightly out the window it appears to be looking away haughtily, defiantly:  "Fine.  You won't have me?