Birthday

 

March 13, 2025

Father’s birthday. I seem to be in unusual places on this day. Once Venice, once Valletta, once Tel Aviv. Today it’s the waiting room for the Service Area of Anderson Toyota, where the car and I have come to get our 5000 mile check-up and have some recall issue (explained to me in vain) addressed. Reading a biography of a fairly boring, very important poet. An old man and an old woman talk loudly about how they were always Republicans but how the last several weeks have turned them around. I realize I like the smell of tires.