tues, oct. 15th, 17.24
Blue Stripes café
“breakfast in America” is apparently the ultimate sound of home
not this new home,
though,
but the one with the red brick walls and the window that was easily outcrawlable and the couches that hosted ticklefights by feet and the identical chairs by the dining room of which we would rotate one seat each quarter of the year
that’s the sound of home to be honest,
my dads insane systems that I’ve been laughing at
and desperately craving
and definitely escaping for years
my mom’s dancing to supertramp in the kitchen while I’d rather she didn’t
my mom’s the absolute cutest, I see that now, luckily she’s been able to see it all the way through
even when literally no one else in the household was
my boyfriends is coming to visit me in this new home shortly
and I want him to think im cute
and hot and smart and sexy,
and he will,
and I might bring him to play chess with June over by Union Square and we’ll pay him $10 each and it’ll be nice,
they kept saying “you’re really nice” like most people aren’t
maybe they were just thrown off by my white rich looking coat
that cost $10 in an outlet store in Bushwick but they didn’t know that
maybe they thought I was “one of those rich white people who live in Denmark”
which would be absolutely true
but maybe they thought I wasn’t a nice one
which id hope isn’t true
my opponent was named June
“how beautiful” I told him
and he told me “i don’t gamble” as I sat down
as if to justify his life to me
I might have said “sure” as he moved his pawn to E4
and his friend was named “Brooklyn”
and he works in the area
and I immediately liked them and wanted to join in on their vibe, wanted them to offer me a smoke as well, but maybe I should just be happy they were smoking near me, that I was enough of a human that they didn’t feel like they had to act otherwise? I have no idea what their lifes are like
but June grew up in the Bronx
and I kind of felt like I shouldn’t ask him where he lives now
and Brooklyn works in the area
June is here most days but not when its raining
I’ll bring my boyfriend next week and we’ll each play him and pay him
I assume he’ll win again
but that’s not what matters
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