Starbucks are they paying any tax yet in old blighty??
Cheers P to bladder-nut /bladder worm/bladderwrack all bladdery
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Sent: 02 April 2013 14:44
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Subject: Brooklyn snap
In Brooklyn waiting in a queue at Starbucks for the unisex toilet
because there do not appear to be any public toilets in New York
the African American girl behind me looks like she might know
how I get to the start of the Brooklyn Bridge so I can walk
back to the Manhattan side? She looks it up on her phone for me
while the queue in front is reduced by one and I am now next.
Controlling my jiggle as well as I decently can, she directs my gaze
to her screen and asks if I want to write it down. Left on Lafayette
then take the next left on ... Excuse me, I'll see you in a sec, I say
as I ease past the exiting previous toiletgoer.
Now, Lafayette and ... what was it again, I ask, on egress.
Check with a guy in a purple t-shirt outside, she says, amiably.
He's my brother. I just phoned him. He'll direct you. Thanks.
And there he was outside. And direct he did. Most accurately.
I walked the Brooklyn Bridge with blissfully enencumbered bladder.
America, can do, does.
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