What a Life

Raspberries from the garden, good sushi, a cool premiere with buffet and drinks afterwards, talking to the actors and director and other reviewers, walking up Mason Street with a gale in our faces, Gay Pride silliness everywhere, June streets full of freezing tourists hanging out of cable cars, counting our blessings in a world filled with so much hardship and loss, Asian kids who canNOT have grown up here wearing miniskirts to show off their goosebump legflesh as they exit grad season stretch limos outside dance clubs, two blocks later old black winos lying motionless, huge parkas, pockets full of rye, what a city, what a world, what a life.