on saturday night i was leaving my apartment and i heard thunder and got nervous but then it turned out that it was just huge beautiful sprouting fireworks going off over the east river in celebration, i can only presume, of summertime.
on the walk to michael's i had time to observe some special things that appear with the seasonal tide, things that you forget about in the winter when you are just fighting to keep your neck warm.
1) hot wind
in the winter wind blows down city blocks so ferocious - icy, i completely forgot this phenomenon. hot wind is like getting licked by the devil. it's like if you had an ice cream cone but the ice cream was made out of carpet.
2) calgon body sprays
do you remember these - all rainbow colored and available at CVS for like 4 dollars? they smell like tangerine and straight alcohol, it hurts your nose just to think about them. i used to buy these in middle school when i was trying to fresh to impress, and it makes me giggle and cough a little to walk by gaggles of shorties luring gentleman callers with fruit-basket aromas. it's amazing to witness the biological implications of warmer weather; it's like everyone is walking around with massive, glittery springtime boners.
3) mischief
youth and ridiculous stupidity walk hand in fist, and though i increasingly feel closer to a mysterious adult, tax laden world, i know i haven't completely crossed over because i LOVE MISCHIEF. so does the summer. 10 pm on a saturday night, a swarm of skating 13 year olds calling one another "stoooop-id" dare one of their friends to sit in the swanky lobby of an overpriced condominium. the night guard is busy fixing a broken sign. while their daring friend sits on a leather sofa and nonchalantly takes sips of his sprite, the boys are gleeful, fearful, jostling... they inspect me as i walk by them to see if i am going to chastise them, and i have to walk faster so they don't see me cracking up and mentally high fiving them.
more to come from sunshine city <3<3
