The channel the day after
Rain had moved through overnight. By afternoon the concrete path was dry in the middle and dark at the edges.
A notebook from a room in Echo Park.
- The laundromat at fourMachine 7 still eats the odd quarter. I sat through the spin with a book I didn't open.
- The bus past my stopI stayed on the 720 two stops longer because the seat was mine and the light was good.
- The late counterAfter nine the order changes. People want the coffee anyway, and the bar we aren't stays closed.
- The lemon tree isn't mine eitherThe neighbor's tree hangs over the walk. She told me to take one if it falls, not to pick.
- The chair on the curbSomeone left an office chair by the pharmacy. It stayed three days, and on the fourth morning it was gone.