Monday, January 27, 2003

Sometimes I see stuff on

Sometimes I see stuff on the sidewalk and I can’t help wonder how these particular items came together, whether they mean anything different next to each other than they did all scattered… over the weekend I found a small collection that caught my imagination: a little girl’s pair of black leather boots, a snapple apple bottle, and a Sharp 1197II 10-digit “L” display desk calculator with “GT function.” Every story I imagine to explain the presence and promimity of involving these items immediately degenerates into surrealism, or something even more degenerate.  They were just sitting all by themselves, on the grass, nicely arranged.  Still life with heels and floating decimal. 

Then I start wondering about that GT function… remembering the old days when my own GT was functioning from sunup to sundown, proud and vigorous, never a thought for the ravages of time… but now, as the seasons turn… my GT wakes up at dusk and roams the street at night, functioning dysfunctionally, taking what it wants and draining nectar from the hibiscus of the night.... the snapple and boots begin to make a bit more sense and I feel a strange urge to reconcile my checkbook.