mom

my mom was a nice lady i really liked her a lot we went for long rides together when it was cool, and when it was hot one day we went for a drive further than we usually went we came to an old gas station its sign was faded and bent there beside the station was an old fashioned general store i had the strangest feeling that i had never been there before inside was an old cooler filled with sasparilla and coke i put my hand in the freezing water and a voice from the shadows spoke "you got to pay up, mister before you put your hand in there" the proprietor lurched like a grizzly from a quivering rocking chair i had never encountered such behavior in all my pristine days the terrible creature glared at me i could not hold his gaze i bought a bottle of ginger ale for mom and a royal crown cola for myself i thought i saw two yellow eyes high up on a dusty shelf the sun was shining like an oil slick on the roof of battered tin though we traveled the whole state over we never went there again

snow pizza

i hadn't seen my mom in years, or thought about her much, so i was a little surprised when she showed up at the house. she had two new kids, a guy and a girl in their twenties. the guy was a big dufus, the girl ordinary looking with little squinty eyes. i didn't get their names
i had other things on my mind. i had a great new job, delivering pizza. i was going to deliver my first one. it looked kind of pale for a pizza, and was floating around on the plate. i went out the door and down the street, and it started to snow. i decided to go back in the house and cover it up and warm it up - i still had plenty of time.
while i was waiting i got into a conversation with someone, aunt somebody or maybe my mom - it was kind of strange, her coming back after all those years. then it was time to go. i went to get the pizza and my dufus new half-siblings had EATEN HALF of it!!

OH NO! what was i going to do! my first day on the job, my first delivery and i messed it up! i looked around, there was no way to cook another half a pizza on time! i was so embarassed! i really needed this job! it was over before it began! i looked at the phone. it looked back at me.

green light/not really an american

she was one of those people you just like to be around.

she was one of the original five, or one of the original six. this fascinated me.

we were headed uptown to the airport. then she remembered frank or billy, he was like a father or a brother to her. we went back downtown to look for him.

we split up to look for him. i was walking along a construction site and these punks were laughing and coming toward me with plastic bags of blue paint. they were going to paint me blue. then there were only two of them and i got away.

we were going back uptown. she was driving. i thought, i'll never understand the traffic in this town. the light was red. three guys came up behind us on the sidewalk, the two on the outside holding up the one in the middle. he didn't look drunk, more like he was spastic or had serious problems. they were laughing about something - " that sounds like something you would hear at macdonalds". something about playing ball - i didn't get it because i'm not a real american. the guy on the outside turned into a fish/basketball and floated on his back in the gutter.

the light turned green. i started to know it was a dream. i woke up. i never saw her again. i never knew who she was.