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Brownies there's restaurant dishes and silverware
families, lots of kids there's a kid in a "100% STONE COLD WHOOP ASS" shirt... a grandmother- walking slowely past the salad bar to see what it has, family pressing her "where do you want to sit, Grandma?" as she says "potato salad" they ask again- Where do you want us to sit?" the whoop ass kid has a plate full of brownies the waitress tells his whoop ass dad that they can't take them when they leave, the dad and the blond whoop ass mom are grinning "by god, we're going to do it, let's do it" all hands go for the box, all hands go for the chicken and the brownies and the box, and the three are across the room and out the door, while others dine now there's just the sound of spoons hitting dishes and there's conversation a christian school mom, a sister and a brother, women and men laughing, the background music is so far back that we can't hear it, but it's watching over us, soothing the mother who asks "Matthew, where's you coat?" the waitresses bus tables with fewer brownies than they imagined, "This is the smoking section?" "Yes, thank you, we're doing o.k." -jennifer jo dooley 10/30/99 |
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...in a black & white notebook... Mulder's informant's name is X
mine's called X---(line) and he's not dead and he doesn't warn me of matters of life and death but he does like to sit across the table from me and scribble poems in a black & white notebook and drink dr pepper. -jennifer jo dooley 1/30/99.... for Josh |
Twenty one. when my baby girl is walking
to day care in the cold her eyes water and i wipe it away with my sleeve, i've dried tears off your baby's face, too, but grown-ups are different. -jennifer jo dooley for Bob... 1/19/99 |
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Sociology FOOD. "why do
these people in these starving countries keep having all these babies when they can't feed the ones they have?" "you can't give them food, food won't help, You have to TEACH them how to survive." And i'm thinking- that you can't teach even you to survive without food. -jennifer jo dooley 6/5/98 |
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