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Tag Archive for "kiki"

Aug 13, 2009

Summer Rain

Loverboy overheard blackberry-bragging to his Ladylove, Well I can’t stand here much longer. Ya’ll know what happens to Brown Sugar in the rain. Kiki says,Butter couldn't melt in that man's mouth.

Jul 18, 2009

Down The Rabbit Hole

Patchin Place Post Office on West Tenth is a block from  Patchin Place cul-de-sac, formerly Bohemia central and home to literary curios e.e cummings and Djuna Barnes. P.P.p.o. is usually a breeze-through but last visit I joined a long line rendered nearly unendurable by the unsavory customer queued just in front. Now I’m post-office-patient. I honed […]

Jul 15, 2009

Shopping for Dollars

It’s my fault. I told a friend we’d meet in the Sunglass Department at  Century 21. She was late. That’s her fault. I pass the time trying on discounted designer frames. Slipping high-end handbags over my shoulder. Totally my fault. Century 21 – where you look for stuff you don’t need until you just can’t […]

Jun 28, 2009

Get Sunny

Don’t let a gray day color you gray. Or blue. Paint your nails sun-shiny. I just did. It’s a cheap trick. But it makes me happy. They say it’s the little things. In 1970, Mom got me my first-ever yellow nail polish. As for the green she gave my older sister, I made off with […]

Jun 24, 2009

Driving in My Car

Of course I am not driving  a car. I hate driving cars. I don’t even like sitting in a taxi. I love the subway. Not only in theory. In practice. I’m a New Yorker. I move from point A to B. And if this is New York and not London. We drive cars on the […]