11.12.06 - 4:04 p.m.

you are threatening to ring in the new year bathrobed. i have been solicited to bring the champagne. i will sleep on your floor in a pink sleeping bag and we will eat take out from cartoonish melamine plates, drinking soda without remorse. for your thirtieth birthday, a nap with accompaniment. crepes en masse, matching knee-high foldover boots for dancing, singing cap'n jazz in a camry like we are half our age.