i just need some motivation
one apartment today, with big honkin' closets in the bedrooms that paradoxically made those bedrooms very small. i mean, if the closet takes up the entire wall and the room isn't very wide, it kind of limits the places you can put a bed. there was a lot of kitchen in the kitchen, tho, even if the cabinets were at least forty years old. this would be the first time that apartment had been rented out - a family had owned the building (it was two apts) and lived in it continually for a bunch of decades and possibly three generations, and only in the past year or so has either apt been available to rent. which is probably why the kitchen had a good amount of closet and counter space for the square footage - because an owner or an owner's relative used to live there. but the place was too small for us. so we keep looking.
i need to hit 15k on my bang tonight and i'm THISCLOSE. i know how it ends so i know what i'm aiming for, i just need to find my motivation. and, er, excitement. can i blame it on pandemic brain? and the fact i have to move when i don't want to?
and speaking of pandemic brain! i got a vax appointment for friday and i am VERY EXCITED.
cairo moved twenty-two royal mummies from one museum to another and gave them a parade with the pomp and circumstance and purple and gold carriages that they deserve.
the story of two babies switched at birth at a little hospital in newfoundland. it actually has a mostly happy ending.
a random side effect of the pandemic - a ketchup packet shortage.
We dress my daughter in amarillo, not butter
or sunlight or mirasol, maybe an Easter yellow,
maybe a Dia de los muertos yellow, a baby chick
yellow, it doesn’t matter. She flickers
around the house all bare-foot. She takes you
by the hand and makes you play
La Suavecita on repeat, her hair in brown
bouncy pig-tails. All day. She watches
your mouth, the way you say tambores,
the way you say cumbia. She won’t stop smiling.
When she laughs I hear my mother. I am
back in her house, all bare-foot, dancing
to the same song.
My mother dresses in a teal bata, not Miami
or peacock or Tiffany Blue, maybe an Easter teal,
maybe a Dia de los muertos teal, a robin egg
teal, it doesn’t matter. She flitters
around the house. She takes me
by the hand and teaches me how to spring
my arms, how to move my hips,
how to follow the beat already in my legs.
She tells me,
ay mijo, one day, las muchachas
will want to spend the night with you
on the dance floor. Find those feather feet.
Carry a smile and laugh, mijo laugh.
I ask to play the song again and run
to rewind the cassette tape. All day.
My mother is all baila, baila,
all brown curls of bobbing hair
abriendo sus brazos the moment
I learn how to spin her in
our shot-gun house. She won’t stop smiling.
My mother loves the color yellow.
There is a sing, a flow around inside.
My daughter ooooos the color teal.
When they lay eyes on each other, they watch
each others’ mouths, see just who smiles first.
I’m just here, waiting to see who wants to dance
-si no la invito, me invita ella.
--"La suavecita", Lupe Mendez
i need to hit 15k on my bang tonight and i'm THISCLOSE. i know how it ends so i know what i'm aiming for, i just need to find my motivation. and, er, excitement. can i blame it on pandemic brain? and the fact i have to move when i don't want to?
and speaking of pandemic brain! i got a vax appointment for friday and i am VERY EXCITED.
cairo moved twenty-two royal mummies from one museum to another and gave them a parade with the pomp and circumstance and purple and gold carriages that they deserve.
the story of two babies switched at birth at a little hospital in newfoundland. it actually has a mostly happy ending.
a random side effect of the pandemic - a ketchup packet shortage.
We dress my daughter in amarillo, not butter
or sunlight or mirasol, maybe an Easter yellow,
maybe a Dia de los muertos yellow, a baby chick
yellow, it doesn’t matter. She flickers
around the house all bare-foot. She takes you
by the hand and makes you play
La Suavecita on repeat, her hair in brown
bouncy pig-tails. All day. She watches
your mouth, the way you say tambores,
the way you say cumbia. She won’t stop smiling.
When she laughs I hear my mother. I am
back in her house, all bare-foot, dancing
to the same song.
My mother dresses in a teal bata, not Miami
or peacock or Tiffany Blue, maybe an Easter teal,
maybe a Dia de los muertos teal, a robin egg
teal, it doesn’t matter. She flitters
around the house. She takes me
by the hand and teaches me how to spring
my arms, how to move my hips,
how to follow the beat already in my legs.
She tells me,
ay mijo, one day, las muchachas
will want to spend the night with you
on the dance floor. Find those feather feet.
Carry a smile and laugh, mijo laugh.
I ask to play the song again and run
to rewind the cassette tape. All day.
My mother is all baila, baila,
all brown curls of bobbing hair
abriendo sus brazos the moment
I learn how to spin her in
our shot-gun house. She won’t stop smiling.
My mother loves the color yellow.
There is a sing, a flow around inside.
My daughter ooooos the color teal.
When they lay eyes on each other, they watch
each others’ mouths, see just who smiles first.
I’m just here, waiting to see who wants to dance
-si no la invito, me invita ella.
--"La suavecita", Lupe Mendez