BETTER THAN APPLES
LATELY I HAVE ACQUIRED THE HABIT of making myself a little plate of cheese and crackers, sitting down on one of the chairs that originally was from the dining room set in Maine
God I miss Maine
It was so beautiful in the winter
It was so warm and lovely in the summer
In the autumn there would be a fine mist
You knew that winter was coming, but that was just more loveliness, only different and snowy
I think I liked almost every moment I ever spent in Maine other than the two or three weeks between seasons in April
Maine doesn’t have a spring, really, although cherry trees did blossom there in May
April could be a problem, though, but hardly worth mentioning
In fact when you are a kid they always say that you will grow up and fall in love and get married and be happy, but I really think that if
you grew up in Maine your heart is already broken because you can never love anyone else other than Maine, the tempestuous, Latin Lover of your youth, distant and beautiful and smoking a cigarillo
Even that tiny little period in April doesn’t matter anymore
The red delicious apples of October, and they are delicious, more than compensate for the slender few days of lonely silence in April where you have no tempestuous Latin Lover smoking a cigarillo, just rain
like now, when I sit down on one of the chairs that was originally from the dining room set in Maine where upon I enjoy eating my crackers and cheese and when I do
I generally watch an old TV show, preferably The Andy Griffith Show
I think it is my favorite show in the world
One thing I really love about it, and there are a lot of things to love about The Andy Griffith Show
for example no one says a mean thing to anyone hardly ever
even though there is some teasing once in a while and lots of shenanigans
the barber is crazy and I wouldn’t want him to shave me
the deputy constantly locks himself in jail by mistake and everyone has a good chuckle at that
nobody seems to ever be married to anybody else
people travel a long way for a fancy chop suey dinner
there is only one drunk as far as we know
and only one bully
it never rains
and there are a lot of fresh biscuits and no dentists
lunch comes in baskets
and there is pie after dinner
and there is strumming on the guitar
after dinner
and lots of trout fishing which is more fun to do than to eat
and when there are apples, they are just used for throwing, at heads
and all of these things are wonderful things
but the one thing I like best of all, better than apples,
better than anything in the whole world
is that everyone loves to talk, and they always talk a lot
but hardly anyone ever says anything, anything, anything
about Maine
God I miss Maine
It was so beautiful in the winter
It was so warm and lovely in the summer
In the autumn there would be a fine mist
You knew that winter was coming, but that was just more loveliness, only different and snowy
I think I liked almost every moment I ever spent in Maine other than the two or three weeks between seasons in April
Maine doesn’t have a spring, really, although cherry trees did blossom there in May
April could be a problem, though, but hardly worth mentioning
In fact when you are a kid they always say that you will grow up and fall in love and get married and be happy, but I really think that if
you grew up in Maine your heart is already broken because you can never love anyone else other than Maine, the tempestuous, Latin Lover of your youth, distant and beautiful and smoking a cigarillo
Even that tiny little period in April doesn’t matter anymore
The red delicious apples of October, and they are delicious, more than compensate for the slender few days of lonely silence in April where you have no tempestuous Latin Lover smoking a cigarillo, just rain
like now, when I sit down on one of the chairs that was originally from the dining room set in Maine where upon I enjoy eating my crackers and cheese and when I do
I generally watch an old TV show, preferably The Andy Griffith Show
I think it is my favorite show in the world
One thing I really love about it, and there are a lot of things to love about The Andy Griffith Show
for example no one says a mean thing to anyone hardly ever
even though there is some teasing once in a while and lots of shenanigans
the barber is crazy and I wouldn’t want him to shave me
the deputy constantly locks himself in jail by mistake and everyone has a good chuckle at that
nobody seems to ever be married to anybody else
people travel a long way for a fancy chop suey dinner
there is only one drunk as far as we know
and only one bully
it never rains
and there are a lot of fresh biscuits and no dentists
lunch comes in baskets
and there is pie after dinner
and there is strumming on the guitar
after dinner
and lots of trout fishing which is more fun to do than to eat
and when there are apples, they are just used for throwing, at heads
and all of these things are wonderful things
but the one thing I like best of all, better than apples,
better than anything in the whole world
is that everyone loves to talk, and they always talk a lot
but hardly anyone ever says anything, anything, anything
about Maine
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