the end.
bye rabbit, bye those sunsets, bye cubz, bye that kind of nighttime rambling, bye venetian blinds in a sulfur light, bye cat pee, bye drunk garbage man slam the lid all night, bye mosquito tornado, bye daytime sleep in a nighttime hole, bye dried up worms, bye checker to the decker, bye bamboo kingdom, bye muscle beach, bye tie die, bye i will come by, bye never sleep all night, bye it’ll never be alright, bye, i’m away through the rain night and i’m leaving the sparklers behind.
My girl, dear friend, college comrade & roommate of almost a year is moving out of NYC, finally, after a few years living here and hard in Brooklyn & a bit in Baltimore & Philly. She is a photographic artist and is moving on to work on her art, finding places that you can actually live in without BUSTING ass and not giving your art all your attention.
All three of us - the inhabitants of our “lovely lady den” in Williamsburg and throwers of DJed garden parties and intimate dinner parties and late night or all day sisterly estrogen-filled lady lovefests - we are all moving on in a way. Ash and I subletted our beautiful apartment that we all put so much love into. We found a home for our cats (a loving family in Washington, DC). And now we are manifesting ourselves as artists. As mobile youth. We can roam. And we can flourish.
Thank you for the beautiful poetry Lyss. And goodbye to you too. But it’s really the start of something new. And something awesome. So really, HELLO!
