birthday

It was a day of driving and coffee that tasted vaguely of soap and students that vaguely seemed to be wondering if they were getting their money worth and a swimming pool where the janitor threw out my leopard print bathing-suit and lines and throughways and no calls and sighs

and Dini next door gave me champagne raspberries and chardonnay and a new friend woke even before me and made my computer play a song and a man listened and the sun beat down and the phone rang and I put on my pink dress and aimee and I drank a bubbly key lime drink and ate gnocchi