2003-03-18 & 10:13 p.m. : being with you

tonight if you saw a girl with a red scarf, full of greek food and ouzo, smiling from ear to ear, walking down broadway with a very handsome gay boy who was incessantly quoting 'freddy got fingered' while jumping in the air and kicking up his heals,

and she was giggling in wonder at how good everything smelled, as if the only thing in the world was the rose scented soap that the girl who just passed had used before she left the house and the warm vanilla of the bakery, the spices from the thai restaurant and her own shampoo,

and then she caught the eye of a boy on a bus whose knit cap was pulled down low to his eyes, and her smiled startled him and he could not help but smile back while her friend jumped in the air right in the middle of the crosswalk,

that was me.

please pardon how loud we were laughing, everything is good right now.