The Left Column
Seasons of joy need not be
just at Christmas.
First Night
        
  My friend accused me of
being a beast on First Night, 
walking on the wrong side of 
the flow, knocking off little
children's hats.  Bill-walking.
  I'm very tall and can walk
very fast.  We walked 5 and a half
miles there and back.  Then we
had to go back on the trolly.
  My friend had made friends
with the guy who runs Little Stevies
on Beacon Street.  Nice guy.  Good
pizza.
  We had walked all the way to the 
Aquarium, missed the early
fireworks.  Then walked back to
Boylston Street near Berkley (At
Mass Ave).  It was 8:45.  I
suggested we rest for a while.
My friend when out on a mission.
Cigarettes or beer.  We'd already
had some drinks in the bar.  Driver
designated and wanted to leave.
I suggested we rest.  so we did.
  We were in the driver's car resting
for two hours and a big menacing
cop came striding down the street
looking into all the cars and
paused very shortly and looked us 
over as we lay there waiting for
midnight. We weren't doing anything
wrong.  He was looking for open drinking.
We weren't doing that.  This was an
older guy, maybe 63, looked angry.
I was shagged from the long walk
at that point.  Freind was off on
his mission.  Driver was accentuating
the negative for which I admonished him.
  Later my friend wigged out on the
crowd at the Government Center T stop.
This was after the fireworks. He'd
threatened to go walking off into 
the city.  We wouldn't have left him there.
We had to go back out of the
trolly station and go find him
out on Tremont Street.  
  Then when people wouldn't
let some other folks off of
the train I was all 'Let us
through or we're pushing you
off of the train' which seems
menacing now that I look back
on it.  Maybe not sounding very
friendly.  At least the trains
were free.  They got out of our
way and let us off of the train.
  We made it home late, Driver 
babbling so as not to fall asleep.
He doesn't drink.  He was just 
tired.
  

Entrance to the
Sturbridge Town Hall, Dec 2006
Philadelphia Tree