Saturday, March 31, 2007
No cash under the door this morning!
Believe me, I looked. Probably a hoax, except it's too much money to blow on a hoax. Or maybe some elaborate game that is unraveling. But its been a brighter day in Legless Black Rock.
Thekla sends fruit from Miami, fresh fruit from the Caribbean, fruit I've never heard of. The box arrives - I can smell the postman bringing it upstairs -- it smells like Hawaii, like tropics, mangos, beaches, fresh papaya - sweet - I open the box and perfume fills the apartment. The cats go crazy. Their fur stands up on end as they circle the Evil Fruit Box. I make a startle motion; they go two feet straight up.
George is off to the coast for a week on business, so I'm hunker down and write. Ten pages today, ten pages tomorrow, that's the goal each day. Visit another world, time, and space while in a Simple Bledsoe cast in Brooklyn. I walk up and down the hallway (on crutches, but trying to build up the atrophied muscles) today for a half hour, write for two hours, walk a half hour, etc. I manage to get to the goal: 400 steps. This is quite an achievement, as the hallway is 14 feet long. Tomorrow I'll add on another 100 steps. It's about 900 feet to the subway. Goal: 900 feet by Friday. I keep the ipod blasting, or I will die of Hallway Boredom.
I will take pictures of the tropical fruit tomorrow while I'm thinking about drooling beets, and Tucker. Ah, Tucker!
Thekla sends fruit from Miami, fresh fruit from the Caribbean, fruit I've never heard of. The box arrives - I can smell the postman bringing it upstairs -- it smells like Hawaii, like tropics, mangos, beaches, fresh papaya - sweet - I open the box and perfume fills the apartment. The cats go crazy. Their fur stands up on end as they circle the Evil Fruit Box. I make a startle motion; they go two feet straight up.
George is off to the coast for a week on business, so I'm hunker down and write. Ten pages today, ten pages tomorrow, that's the goal each day. Visit another world, time, and space while in a Simple Bledsoe cast in Brooklyn. I walk up and down the hallway (on crutches, but trying to build up the atrophied muscles) today for a half hour, write for two hours, walk a half hour, etc. I manage to get to the goal: 400 steps. This is quite an achievement, as the hallway is 14 feet long. Tomorrow I'll add on another 100 steps. It's about 900 feet to the subway. Goal: 900 feet by Friday. I keep the ipod blasting, or I will die of Hallway Boredom.
I will take pictures of the tropical fruit tomorrow while I'm thinking about drooling beets, and Tucker. Ah, Tucker!
