gonna talk about edith elizabeth
BUT
I didn't HAVE therapy
& I don't
WANT
to
SO
I'm gonna talk about
STUFF
I remember
I suspect
I slept
MOST of the DRIVE
because ever since I was a baby
drive me around put me to
SLEEP
&
we were STILL firmly
in the
PAREGORIC era
I remember when we got there
the house she was
LIVING in
it LOOKED very similar to
that house you see
with Janice
in front
there were LIKE three other girls
there at the TIME
& one of them
gave me
a picture book to keep me occupied
A is for APPLE
I remember
WALKING
LIKE
seemed like ACROSS the street
to golden gate park
& wading barefoot into a little
CREEK or something
there was CONTEXT talk for this outing
which I can't remember
BUT it meant
SOMETHING to e.e.
THAT is what
I called her
AUNT e.e.
I went to chinatown with gran gran and joan
we rode the trolley
the trolley
it doesn't STOP
SO
they each took one of my arms
& JUMPED
it HURT
like my arms being pulled out of the sockets
is HOW I described it
LATER
BUT
it was KINDA exciting
& it stopped
HURTING
pretty
quickly
in chinatown
I guess what I WANTED was
this GOLDEN lacquered
plastic APPLE
that came
with
a stack of golden lacquered plates
GOLD
on the outside
BLACK
on the inside
I THINK I thought
it was RICH and elegant
I'm not sure what
I was planning to
DO
with it
I THINK I thought
it was SO beautiful
it didn't
NEED
a purpose
