Showing posts with label Nina Simone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nina Simone. Show all posts

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Black Is The Color of My New Dog's Tail


July 19, 2010


I'm on my way to a train station with a handsome but scruffAdd Imagey young man whom I do not recognize. He has told me about a discount ticket program for a super fast train that will get us from the United States to Great Britain in just under four hours. As we stand behind a wrought iron gate, I realize I do not have my passport with me.


"Maybe I can go with you next time," I tell him.


I return to my house to discover that I have adopted a lovely female dog. This is very happy news until I feel the dog's forehead and notice that not only does she have a fever but, even more disturbingly, she is not actually a dog; she is a girl, a little human girl.


I am truly horrified that I could have made such a mistake. I become hysterical, running around the house asking everyone what I should do. Finally, I come upon my mother who tells me calmly, "You know what you should do."


"Yes. Yes," I reply with new found composure, "I will teach her to walk on two legs and raise her as a human being...and I shall call her...Nina Simone!"