Monday, November 3, 2025

seventies memory

that Chinese restaurant made me
REMEMBER something 
it's pretty faint

there was this restaurant 
the HAPPY BUDDHA 
it MIGHT have been a Chinese restaurant 

BUT 
I THINK it might have been 
SOMEHOW adult XXX
because it was 
the ONLY 
restaurant we NEVER went to

AND
I was obsessed with it
it was KINDA a
FAT Buddha TOO

at LEAST that's 
HOW 
I remember it

it was the westheimer arts festival 
LIKE early SEVENTIES 
I think my mom
& shirley farley 
had the 

atelier 

which was 
ON 
westheimer 

so the whole thing felt like an extension of the shop
& I was pretty familiar with the AREA 

& there was this woman who made
these beautiful 
CAFTANS 
& my mom BOUGHT me one

it was kinda LIKE tye dye
in that it had a BUNCH of swirls and COLORS
BUT 
it wasn't 
TYE DYE it was PRINTED 
to LOOK like swirling COLORS 
& it was KINDA
LIKE 
a green and pink and yellow rainbow 

AND
MAYBE it wasn't REALLY a CAFTAN
maybe it was a woman's 
TUNIC 

it was a CAFTAN on ME

SO
I was swirling and dancing around 
& SOMETHING 

& I THINK 
the woman who made the caftan
OR
POSSIBLY 

just ANOTHER woman 
WEARING a CAFTAN 

gave me
a FACIAL massage