van dusen boulevard

Julia. Benny. A couple of otters in the sun. the bike ride between their houses took nearly all day. It was a disney adventure all those sideroads, lefts and rights by memory not signs, through family parks and farmer's fields, down over the bridge, along the river finally to the shady cul de sac. They baked cakes together. Had a secret language. practised mind control techniques on each other. They'd take one glove off each to hold hands in the middle of winter. in '77 he left town and later she got married. Once years ago and years after the last time, benny ran into her in the subway; she was leaning on the tiled wall with a guy, smoking. Like a rocker guy. she maybe said they were on the way to an Aerosmith concert. neither could process how much there was going on. And then the subway came and she was gone. That's it.