Sunday, Sept. 02, 2007 - 8:53 p.m.
JInky Skips Nightschool Class
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Friend sarah comes over
for some sort of Friday evening
harvest season
vegetarian supper
as she is the only other vegger
for miles in this meat eating town
I make flaffals and a middle east salad
but she is too upset to eat
- boyfriend trouble
- carreer problems
- family headaches
- even dog drama
but still keeps upbeat
in spite of it all
she lets her food get cold though
as she smokes a lot of cigarettes
and tells me about her life
and then puts her whole plate
untouched in the fridge
after we decode to vacate
and walk to the corner store
for ginger ale=
Jinky decides to follow us
as the summer cicads serenade above
its just easier to deal with him
as an equal on a voyage of discovery
than carry him home
and then try to outrun him
all the way to the store
Jinky dawdles along behind us
and I can see him overly fascinated
with ditches and culverts
freshly trimmed hedges
and a freshly dead sparrow
and what looks like his sparrow family
watching from the tree overhead
Sarah decides to unleash
her newly coloured hair
from its elastic restraint
for all the world to behold
its purplish mahogany glory
blowing in the breeze
and also display her
wonderful new sunglasses
when we get to the corner
the traffic is not cat friendly
so we carry Jinky
across the intersection
he decides this is a huge game
so he bites me hard
clamp down fangs
and also swat at sarahs face
all merry and happy as he destroys us
and we cannot fight back
as we carry a squirming red kitten
towards the non descript strip mall
Sarah guards Jinky
and restrains him on the sidewalk
of the mini mall while I go in
to buy the healing hinger ale
and snag two paper cups
from the slushie display
with ugly blue slush eternally churning
like a windex poisoned snowdrift Jinky I learn in the four minutes I was inside
had tried to slip into the pizza store
and join in the co motion
if several bored kids
chowing down on those
esseential triangles
Sarah had to fetch him back
and hold onto him
we cross the highway to go back
I sheppard Jinky ahead of me
crossing at the corner
but he is useless
at anything involving co operation
so sarah picks him up
and he merrily bites her hands
till she can dump him
on the opposite sidewalk
we know if we just walk
he will follow us
and he does
so we do
till we get to the dentists office..
which is closed
because its Friday evening
wealthy Dr. Gumby
has the finest lawn in town
remarkably well kept
and exceptionally lush
But you can only see his
immaculate gardens & lawn
from the street
you can't see anything from inside the office
or laying back in the dentist chair
and we know for a fact
that nobody at all...
except his gardner
has ever ever walked on his lawn
or came up close to his flower beds
in all the years he has been in practise
so we sat in the middle of
the wonderful virgin green lawn
with wonderfful flowers in full bloom
on a wonderful temperate Friday evening
toasted the sky for the precious gift of life
and sipped our ginger ale
as Jinkly raced about at random
First thought was to take photos of
proud Jinky amongst the dentists' flowers
& he was glad to pose regally
tail errect, fur blowing in the light breeze
amongst the black eyed susan forest
and towering pink hydrangas
Jinky somehow connects
the pressence of a roving camera
with an opportinity to receive
somebodys undivided attention
and will walk right into the lens
for a super close up
I have several red blurr
shots on file
to prove this in court
if necessary
dental lawn gypsies
we moved on
as quicky as we arrived
and coaxed Jinky to follow us
back to my place
so we could then go
onrward to the beach
and really Friday party hard
but as soon as he got on the driveway
he disappeared
I whistled him down
but he did not respond
so we walked to the beach
hoping he would show up
at the lake
the view way way across yonder
to the twinkling city of Toronto
was truly awesome..
How many times
had I been in that distant metropolis
for learning
work
or love
only to turn around
and try to get back here
as fast as I could?
Too many times
beep beep
pal technoman arrived
in his little black car
calling out from the dark
as he knew if I wasn;t home
i would be at the beach with Jinky
Technoman is
one of Jinkys greatest fans
Jinky will greet him
then walk all over him
when he visits
but there was no Jinky tonight
instead
in the dark at the beach
was sarah
drinking ginger ale
and chain smoking
in a halo of dull orange glow
of smouldering tobacco
technoman & sarah discuss Australia
as the twilight beciomes very dark and moody
10,000 stars come out overhead
serenaded by 10,000 crickets
and a warm breeze from the lake
stirrs the trees into laughter
the evil city yonder
switches on its lights all at once
and comes alive
like a string of glowing pearls
as 10,00 people all at once
go out drinking
to whatever honky tonk
they can squeeze into
Sarah grabs a lift from technoman
back to my place
as she is too tired to walk
and I meet them there
sarah phones home
for a ride back home
which is nestled in the stillness
of the fruit orchards
and technoman and me wave goodbye
and go inside
where I pull Sarahs cold dinner
out of the fridge
and heat it up and we eat it
and at the same time
we look over an antique
black plastic casio electric piano
circa 1981
I scored from la trash the night before
apparently someone was downscaling
in a hurry
or moving out in a hurry
who decided that living piano free
was a good idea
we plugged it in - hummmm click
and it worked like a charm
perfect condition
in the same origional 80s box
we doodled around on the
1001 cheezy 80s sound effects
and the quaint but puzzling
pre recorded tempos.
worth every cent of nothing
Jinky walks in
after missing his own scheduled
voyage to the beach
as if nothing had happened'
nothing really did happen
and he jumps on the table
we are working at
and walks along the keyboard
to announce his arrival
and out comes random music
and we laugh at
how passably good it was
not at all emo
thats all anyone
would ever want
from a garbage night piano
-some fun
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