![]() You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.įind a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Even as I stood in front of the Fat Lady, whose cackling gap-toothed twelve-feet-high, three-feet-wide body made me laugh for a solid hour, even as I collapsed in tears driven out of my eyes by laughter, I understood that the other name for San Francisco wasn't Frisco it was pay you dumb jerks from Oakland pay.”ĭate a girl who reads. ![]() the hand of San Francisco reaches out to grab your stupid little nickels and dimes. ![]() Pay, the voice said, to whomever took us on Saturday to the Fleischacker Zoo. I am expensive, the city always said, so pay me for my wonderful dark treats like the Steinhart Aquarium, with its dark wide hall lit up by tank after tank of bright gold green blue sharks dolphins whales stinger fish, cold-eyed still-as-a-corpse fish that didn't blink or budge when we tapped the thick glass with our fingernails. Every time, all my years as a child, that we crossed the bridge, we had to pay to get in, pay to get out, pay for every little thing. A lady of the night, a sorceress with her hands out. ![]()
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