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March 28, 2004
Village Girl
Tonight, listening to Jazz on accuradio and chatting with A (who is pretending I'm still in New York!), a memory hit me hard.
I remember, walking down East Village in the snow, trying to avoid the sludge. A kept throwing snowballs at me, and I, not wanting to dirty my gloves, ignored him and went on walking. We walked to the Indian restuarant for dinner and found warmth in there for a while. Then I remembered going outside, standing at the sidewalk, smoking my post-food cigarette. I shuddered as one naked hand held the fag and the other hand stuffed deep into my pocket, snow flakes dashing into my eyes and I stood stubbornly shivering in the cold. A lady walked by and borrowed my lighter and both of us, stood there, smoking and sharing our cold silent moment. A couple of men walked by and told us it's freezing and we nodded in unison, like twin sisters who never met.
A came out to get me. And we continued walking walking arm-in-arm and he threw more snowballs at me. I laughed but ignored him because I was already too caught up in my own world. Of misty lights and twinkle stars, of snow and rain and sludge and silent music.
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I also remember another night at the East Village with A. We just finished watching a dance performance and it was snowing again. That night, A was rather pensive, so we went into starbucks for some hot chocolate and sat on a couch and read our books for a while. We read and I stopped to look at the world rushing by in muted silence as people scurried in the snow. And there I was, warm for that while, with the luxury of a hot chocolate sponsored by A.
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Everything is in Sepia on snowy/rainy winter nights in the East Village.
Addendum: A corrects me that it was raining on the first account and snowing only on the second. But my memory had fused both occasions into one. It's probably not true to account. I'm not too sure when what happened anymore. :p
Posted by lainey at March 28, 2004 09:46 PM
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Lainey, my icq address list got wiped out somehow. Can you please contact me via icq and message me? Claire
Posted by: Claire at March 29, 2004 06:59 PM