I played Tangerine over and over again with Gallery Owner after we
left his gallery and the one across the street. I saw the woman who's
daughter died from a shot used to treat that disease and I couldn't get
her out of my head so I wrote her a letter. I wrote out a check too for
$20.00 and wrote her a long message. Then I called Gallery Owner who
didn't know my number and I asked him if he was going to the Green
Turtle but he'd already left. I walked into a rotating sushi bar
thought about wine, talked to a really nice waiter and then Gallery
Owner texted me right back and asked if I wanted to get dinner. I met
him a half hour later and I got a really garlicy caesar salad and onion
rings and lots of wine and beer and then we parked at his studio, walked
down to Clemets on Harford Road and listened to the Led Zeppelin song
over and over again with Hank. Hank is a regular at Clements and he
gave Gallery Owner and I two free drink chips to get whatever we
wanted. I couldn't stand up anymore so I gave my chip to Gallery Owner
who got a tequila shot, no...a Wild Turkey shot and a Yuengling. He
kept his hat on the whole time that he was drinking. Hank says he wants
to move to Florida. I told him about Dubstread and of the golf courses
that my parents go to and he was impressed. He was impressed that the
weather down there is always cool and that theres beaches only one hour
away from Orlando, where I used to live. I got into talking about
Disney which is what I sometimes do when people ask where I'm from
because it's the part that I remember liking the most, going to Italy in
EPCOT after work, or riding the Mar's rover. I used to dress up at
Disney in a safari costume: khaki pants, a cargo shirt, and camel
colored Doc Martens. I didn't smile at the customers when I asked if
they wanted their pictures because I was always meditating. I meditated
with my eyes open while staring at the Tree of Life. After awhile I
started seeing things all blurry and it was really cool.
When
Gallery Owner went outside to smoke a cigarette I turned on "2000 miles"
by Chrissie Hyndes and I played it as loud as a I could on my phone.
Pretty soon the other pool players came out with their sticks and saw
that the whole road and roof of the bar was filled with snow. It was
coming down hard. Four hours later and I sorta wondered if I was ever
gonna get to sleep but I figured I probably wouldn't because it was too
late to sleep. It was 2 in the morning and I had to get up early so i
drove Gallery Owner home and he said he had a cat that was upstairs that
I could pet. But I said I had to pet my own cats so he got up. He saw
that he had sat on my caesar salad and onion ring left-overs but I kept
them in my fridge anyway and tried to fall asleep before D.C. the next
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