6/1
that the
guy was naked at the party was ok
because
he was reciting a monologue
and naked
actors are ok
even at a
party.
6/2
first saw
sports reports
showing
highlights from last night’s johan santana no-hitter,
the first
in mets history,
saw the
ball hit over the third base bag,
the ball
that was called foul but should’ve been fair for a probable double.
would have
been nice if the first no-hitter my team had ever pitched
would
have been, well, a no-hitter.
6/3
it’s the
easiest email I ever send,
the “hey,
here’s your slot in the welcome to boog city festival,
email me
back, say everything’s good.”
So all
you have to do is say “all is good”
Or “got
the email, all set”
Or some
variant.
Never get
what takes more than that day to send that “all is good,” never.
6/4
cardinals
at mets game,
senior
stroll day with folks.
i forgot
to put lettuce and tomato on our turkey sandwiches at home,
so fill a
cardboard four-cup and some food container
with
tomatoes and shredded lettuce,
for our
three sandwiches
turn my
head back,
and mom
is grazing at the lettuce with her fingers,
give a
lil yell,
get up
and get more for our sandwiches,
more for
her to graze on.
6/5
i want to
hear you play at one of my events,
it’s been
so long since i’ve heard you anywhere,
’cause
everytime i see you,
someone i
don’t see all that very much,
it’s
weird how easy it is.
6/6
she gets
state funding for her phone
but she
can only do it for one phone
she’s got
a number to call
but can’t
understand them well enough,
so asks
me to take care of it.
i try to
get a person for a long time,
afraid to
make a mistake if i just push buttons.
but it
takes a long time,
multiple
calls, multiple people,
and they
can’t find her in their system at all.
eventually
give up,
and push
the buttons,
finish it
up in two minutes.
6/7
everytime
i do a mail merge
to my
publishers’ list
i thank
the intern
who
compiled it
and
daniel who got me the intern.
and then
i wish for
another
intern
who can
go and
update it.
6/8
you used
to only be able to exit
the back
doors of my buildings
but not
reenter the same way
a bit of
a pain during my 10 years living here,
but i
never said a thing.
well a
few someones said a few somethings,
and our
front/side doors’ key now opens the back doors.
thank you
whoever you are.
6/9
little
stevie cauthen peaked at 18
winning
the triple crown aboard affirmed,
before
a 110-race losing streak
and fighting
weight
before
going to england
where you
can ride a bit heavier
and
fairing okay.
6/10
(sing)
i
remember when i give things,
and i
remember when i lend,
so please
don’t tell a lie to me
give me back my pretty in pink dvd.
6/11
you
should not be allowed to have a child
if you
wear your sunglasses
in
reverse
on the
back of your neck.
6/12
my aunt
and uncle,
arriving
at the apartment they rented for their vacation,
weren’t
used to apartment living since the fifties,
thought
the apartment building was too loud,
they
weren’t used to an air conditioner that stuck out the window,
the rain
made too much noise when it hit against it,
and there
was a little excess paint on the floor,
and
brooklyn parking was, well, brooklyn parking
so within
moments of arriving,
my aunt
and uncle decided they couldn’t stay there,
and
headed out to my folks in long island,
as my dad
researched nearby hotels.
6/13
go to mcc
theater group benefit w/berger
in part
to benefit mcc,
in part
to see new neil labute plays,
in part
to hang with berger,
in part
to see krysten ritter and emmanuelle chriqui for real.
discover
there’s krysten ritter pretty
and
there’s emmanuelle chriqui pretty.
6/14
drove my
folks and my aunt and uncle to the theater,
headed
back and found an unmetered spot on my street,
then
drove back and picked them up,
no paid
parking, no cab fares.
6/15
dad wants
us to take two cars to the free movie
at the
elmont library
queen
latifah and dolly parton in joyful noise
so
there’ll be ore room in the car
sounds
like i’m to drive one solo
while
folks and my aunt and uncle share the other,
so I stay
home.
6/16
my sis
and brother
don’t
want to be in the same room anymore
so it’s
father’s day, day one,
at my
brother’s house.
6/17
so it’s
father’s day, day two,
at my
sister’s house.
And my
youngest niece
gives her
almost stepdad a like a father card.
6/18
(sing)
tell me
once
i’ll make
you happy,
tell me
once
i swear
but it’s
a one-time operation,
a tell me
once i’ll make it fine,
don’t
report, don’t alert,
please
don’t change, don’t divert
there’s
just need for the same,
no need
for rearrange,
say it
once and get it right,
let’s
move on
to other
fights.
6/19
when i
was younger i used to see
every
olive stone
every
spike lee
every hal
Hartley
now it’s
every wes anderson
6/20
watching
a veronica mars rerun off my parents’ dvr
(soapnet
picked up reruns of the now five years off the air show a short time ago)
and it’s
revealed her email address is vmars@aol.com
so I
shoot a quick email over:
subject: hey
body:
hope yre well. :)
6/21
how do
you bag on a show,
via text
message,
a show
you’re headlining
five days
before the event
when no
one’s died?
6/22
from the
time we left my parent’s house
for
dinner with sis and her family
35
minutes away
until the
time we returned
one
dinner at the cheesecake factory later
eight
hours had passed,
eight
hours.
i can’t
even type out any more details,
too
painful.
6/23
chinese
with wilders
at so
far, so good
and it
winds up ian’s a pickier eater
than his
vegetarian wife and kosher me.
6/24
sometimes
i want to mind-erase
so days
don’t cue thoughts of you (and you, too)
endings
tinge any good thoughts of you
make me,
you know, sad.
6/25
i am
still watching the movie she's out of my league
everytime
it's on
even the
edited for basic cable version.
6/26
my mom
and sis ask me how many people i’m expecting
after the
poet backed out five days before the event
after the
musical act backed out the day before the event.
four i
told them both,
the new
poet,
the new
musical act,
the sound
man,
and me.
i was
wrong,
there
were five.
6/27
after a
round at the grassroots,
her a
salty dog,
a
greyhound with salt on the rim,
that she
promised to have because of her new dog,
me my
usual vodka gimlet,
she was
kinda okay,
but just
okay.
i walked
talking her
to the
outdoor cube on st. mark’s place,
and we
started pushing it to make it spin, slowly,
before
joined by a bunch of young 20s guys,
who help
us pick up so much speed
we
eventually pull back.
6/28
it’s a
dollar each for pepsi family two-liter bottles at the cvs,
five
maximum,
i grab
some and skip the cashiers,
go to the
self-serve checkout machine,
buy five
diet pepsi two-liters,
swipe my
debit card and finish up,
then scan
two diet pepsi wild cherry two-liters
and
another diet pepsi,
for a
total of eight,
swipe my
debit card a second time and finish up.
6/29
call my
mom,
the
meatloaf that she made me
is in the
fridge
freshly
thawed
“how long
will it last for?”
she
thinks and says until monday,
which
means i can have pretzels, chips, and dip for dinner tonight,
like i’ve
been kinda craving.
6/30
i’m
remembering lines from a mandy moore movie,
multiple
lines.
some may
say that’s a bad sign,
not me.
