snow, both ways.

that's what i got, my ninjas.
snow both ways.
snow on the way down,
snow on the way up.
driving down to connecticut in the white-out non-stick slicks,
and driving back to where i belong in a barrage of blanketed white...
hailstones sound like hellion meteors at 65mph collisions.
and the roundabout rocketship round trip was
topped off with a pile of pernicious perspicacity
during the in-between-drive times.
happily,
i'm safe, sound, and snug at home in the woodsly goodness, now.
bone-tired,
droopy-eyed,
and without a single slice of pizza in my bellyhole.
dang.
a lot of travel, and a lot of waiting, and a lot of domestic disputations.
duders,
courthouses are soooo dirty.
profanity?
yep.
trash?
sure.
incomprehensible 'ethnic' gibberish yelling?
uh-huh.
greasy dads alternately fighting/making-out with greasy moms?
you betcha.
i saw some things today, neighbors.
some things i won't soon relinquish from the really-real memory banks.
connecticut rot, in full effect.
tooth decay, social decay, urban decay.
you name it, i saw it.
hard.
*
i had a late dinner with my sister mary grace
her gentleman friend, tim.
my neice cash,
and their positively connecticut buddies.
mr. tim made a great first impression.
on the ones,
he cooked up some crucial vegan hottness for my face.
butternut squash risotto?
c'mon.
yellow squash, orange peppers, blanched asparagus and broccoli
all found their way down the shark hatch.
i had a lovely time,
and it was good to see my sister and her family as a family.
grown-up-type sh!t, mutha-lickas.
i'm sayin',
good times and hanging out and staying up past midnight....
with my family and their family?
i really must be getting old;
never quiet, never soft.....