Otohime

We are going to hockey.

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Dans le metro. Il y a un fragrance unique a Paris ici, comme burning dust, un peu douce et familier. Aujour d’hui je ne rien q’une flaneuse. Pas de travail, pas d’angoisse. Tout le monde a l’air insouciant et cosmopolitain. Je veux rester ici longtemps. Mon francais est execrable, mais n’importe quoi. C’est vraiment mieux que new york ici. Que peut on faire?

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Yesterday we went to the musee de la mode. We saw an exhibition of wooden toys, animal art, and fashion from the 1980s and 1990s. We went to a chic bar called Angelina and had hot chocolate and a chocolate eclair with Jamie. Then we came home and ate dinner and watched tv. This morning we did yoga. Now we are at the market. I am drinking orange juice. My dad’s friend Marc is drinking white wine. My mom is drinking coffee. Nada is drinking mint tea. So is Marc. My dad is drinking orange juice. We are drinking all these things outside the bar. The weather is not really good. I’m happy that Nada is staying here.
We saw a female pit bull dog in the bar sitting next to the chair. She looks patient. We are going to a Chinese restaurant with some American students from south Carolina tonight.
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Location:Rue des Margottes,Montreuil,France

you’re in my thoughts

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I would always say, call her, call her
but he wouldn’t call her
not even on her birthday
maybe he called her once a year
he never sent her presents, but I did
she told me he never talked to her
about why he was so angry with her
she wished he would talk to her
she and I communicated better than they did
if there was a thank you note or email to write
I wrote it, not him
and yet when push came to shove
she believed his untruths
even though he had a pattern of lying
and said she would “defend him to the death”
putting a much more martial and aggressive
face on what should really just have
been considered a tragedy
she attacked me in the middle
of my brokenness, at the nadir
of my vulnerability
and called me names
saying that I was the only one to blame
(not even he would have said that)
for what had happened
and only believed his skewed narrative
of victimization, as if he had no
agency or responsibility of his own
she said these things
despite my traumas
and the indignities
I have suffered at his treatment
as a woman
I thought she would have
more understanding
well
if people want to live
in denial and delusion
I suppose that is their choice
but I will no longer
have any part
in it

a little stimulation causes the line to break

toast qua toast

~Norma Cole

green flames/red flames/ white flames

black wool rainbow

an old hippo on the bank roaming at night

pure mental milk of the word
all that opens the womb is mine

~Yedda Morrison

I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark

brown babies can’t have monkeys

~Douglas Kearney

lawsuit mullet

owners in pants personally pounding

a bird commercial

explain fantasy flowers

supreme swing of testicle

~Josef Kaplan

to the coolidge/marinovich reading on Wednesday!

For Paris. Here are some things I want to do there:

Go to the montreuil hammam with Stacey

Go to the palais de Tokyo

Maybe visit the dog and cat cemetery in asnieres

Visit the musee de la mode and the musee gustave Moreau

Eat moules frites, falafel, salade au chevre chaud, and duh almond croissants…Drink chocolat

Wander in large old department stores

Go to markets

Obsessive & copious photography

Revisit the belly dance stores in Montmartre, the Oum Khalthoum cafe off the rue Mouffetarde, l’institut du monde arabe, and Monoprix, Monoprix, Monoprix!

What else should I do?? I only have six days there.

And I will be there without my erstwhile parasite, whoopee!

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