Friday, February 11, 2011

Standing Over Your Kitchen Sink

Saw you around 8:00pm, frowning, standing over the sink in your immaculately clean one bedroom apartment.  Lipgloss, handcuff necklace, jeans; the perfect casual ________ for an evening out...but you are not out, you are standing over your sink, drinking dirty martinis, watching The Office, waiting for your phone to ring, making lists.

Tomorrow:
-Safeway (no peanut butter)
-Bake Bread
-Gym
-A prom for senior citizens

The Next Day:
-Biostats
-Gym
-Don't eat all the bread
    
The Day After That:
-Gym
-Cure common illness in children
-Try not to kill anyone in the process

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Piadosisima Virgin Maria de Guadalupe...

You were the woman praying over lit candles in your apartment...forcing lips to say foreign words that once held no concept...pleading for the beneficence of intermediaries...of handicapped chanchitos...of Jesus statues, that maybe their exotic nature would bring you any small amount of luck.