THERE SHE
IS...!
Day 49 Fri Aug
30 Zoe’s Morning Page
“There
she is!” that’s what Mischa says every time we approach that collection of
orange I-beams that has themselves suspendered over the San Francisco Bay. She
just thinks the sun rises and sets on that contraptions head. How a person can
fall in love with a big hunk of metal...I don’t get it. She says things like ‘’Oh that orange
against the blue water!” or “Gateway to the jewel-city!” or “Life’s a bridge,
Zoe, and this ones mine!” I sit back against her and sigh. I cannot make heads
or tails outta her sometime.
Today
we drove another 500 miles, that’s my limit. I told em “people one more mile
and its hairy carey for me! If you really love me you will stop this car now!”
And
it was like the seas parted and the clouds did too and a bolt of lightening
struck the earth and the car came to a halt and we all got out! I made a
miracle! I was operatin all these years under the terrible mis conception that
I was a dog but I could have spelled that wrong! What should I do for an
encore?
Well
it’s been a year since we been across that orange phenomena and it seems like
people use it mostly like a parking lot. Ya crawl along for miles and then pop
thru this little tunnel and Mischa’s love interest looms over you like a giant
neon insect.
There’s
always about ten thousand cars on it and about 5000 pedestrians hanging over
the railings. The whole thing makes me queezy! But there was a payoff, on the
other side. Mischa is right the city is like a jewel, and do they love my kind
there or what?
There’s
dog bowls outside every shop and a lot them has biscuits too, just sittin out
there for the takin! Them’s generous folks in this city. And they got all their
buildings painted all bright colors like they is havin a big lit-up Christmas
party all the time. There’s tons a sailboats floatin around and flowers
everywhere, really steep scary hills with trolleys attached to em, bells
clanging, fog horns tootin, and every kind a creature imaginable walkin them
streets.
I
could cozy up to this town, no problem, Mischa could too!
Anyways
when we gets to where we were goin, which I had no idea where it was til we got
there...and boy I had forgotten about my acrophobia, (yes greek word...in case
Mishca forgot to mention it). We climbed some mountain for like a half hour and
that big blue body of water kept gettin bigger and bigger. Then them redwood
trees started fillin in until it was like nightime all a sudden. Then we turns
right and goes down a hill I tell ya it was at a 90- degree angle to the rest
of the planet! Straight down we go. Me and Mischa’s stomachs was doin all kinds
of gymnastics. (I won’t mention the origin of that one...just sayin, though). I
even made the sign of the cross a few times, Mischa always does it three times,
I guess its for good measure! I just did it once, tryin to be optimistic! Like
I was hopin I didnt really need a divine intervention, even though I was
thinkin maybe I did. Ya know I dont really think ya can fool god like that, but
sometimes I try...
Anyways
we are all settled in now, and you will not guess what I had for dinner. I
could not beleive my nose or my eyes or my tongue or my teeth or nothin! I got
a hamburger! From my mothers. They
musta stopped at the store when I was nappin, I did not see that one comin, but
ladies let me tell you, I bow to you! Just like that nice lady did to me in the
sushi bar yesterday, bow and bow again.
What
else can you do when someone surprises you with your hearts desire!
Hey, I think I'm due an after dinner morsel. Later
Hey, I think I'm due an after dinner morsel. Later
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