the other side. I know better now than to be taken by such things, I said. You fell over my blanketed body and pawed your way up to my neck and held me and said “you are the green grass”, to which I squealed and wheezed in conviction and delight. / I fell dramatically on the bed like they do in the movies when he’s “dreamy” and u laaaughed and said I looked like a yawning seal / “it’s never a good sign when my wife is peeing and I hear her say, ‘interesting’” (note: no reading material present)