As I recall, the morning started in the dizzy fatigue of nostalgia for neon and jazz and flux and Sylvie called from the bathroom, “make some coffee” and so I dragged my self out of bed and ground the beans from Papua New Guinea and made the coffee and went back to bed and lay there listening to the weather and she went off to the doctor and I drew and thought about the blood work results and the intricacies of the reptilian lymph system and drew and poured coffee all over the page and she came back later and called from the cell to meet her at Sette for lunch and I brought page two in a fold of the New York Times with a Badtz Maru pencil on it’s very last led and she’d bought once in Chinatown when I was particularly manic and it made her laugh theat the Japanese had come up with a cartoon character to describe my condition and a brown marker I’d found in the street three days earlier and she wasn’t there yet so I got a table outside and restrained myself from ordering wine and drank instead the water and put the page down and spilled a little and told the waiter it was art and little about Daniel Spoerri and then she showed up and said, “Why are you acting so manic?” becasuse usually the meal art only comes out when I’m sort of crazy, but in this case it was a nod to Spoerri, but how would an Econ. major know that and I said, “Well I’m a little upset, aren’t you?” and so we were silent untill the waiter came and she said,”I think we’re ready” and I said, “Are we?” and the waiter said, “But you haven’t even heard the specials yet” and I said, “I told you we weren’t ready” and she ended up ordering the pasta special after all and I got the mozerella with balsamic and the seared green onion which I always get and a pasta pomodoro because I wanted the red for the drawing and a mineral water because I wanted the label (which I lost at the patisserie) and then we talked about chemotherapy. For dinner we went directly from the gym to Bonnie’s Grill for wings and burgers which were more or less perfect… the next day I sanctified the drawings with wine.
