Hard times in New York town

21 April 2009 ?

Caught the bus to Jamaica, Queens, this morning. Picked up a bag of escarole, caught the bus right back home. I got a lot of living to do ‘fore I die, and I ain’t got time to waste. On the bus back, I saw a man holding a package of what looked to be napkins, though they could have been really boring bandannas. Looking closer, I realized the man was Dean Martin. I sauntered over to him and stuck out my hand. –Hey, Deanzo, I’ve got an idea for you. Why don’t you come on over to my apartment and we’ll play some hearts with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? He slapped my face, and I his. He stood, and we danced. Napkins, or bandannas, fluttered about like so many hummingbirds, and the bus was soon filled with the shouts of happy children, revelling in a blizzard of napkin, or bandanna, naïve to the whips and scorns of time, and to the great sadness of man’s decline.