» So the other day we went over to Hannah's house, the boys played in the yard and we adults smoked a jay (rolled from roaches) right there in the backyard
It reminded me of smoking in Alfred's yard, exactly six years earlier
the yard where Alfred and I played as children
but that one day after Julian and Alfred finished school (I had been kicked out of Rindge, and just informally dropped out of Dearborn 5 days earlier) I showed up with a newspaper wrapped up containing one quarter ounce of marijuana, and we went over to Alfred's to burn it in the backyard
out of Julian's bong,
their bodies rubbery like aliens
It reminded me of smoking in Alfred's yard, smoking a jay in Hannah's yard...
Hannah and Marc could be real friends to Erin and I, we could mutually enrich each others' lives
that's what that time was about,
and why I miss Alfred's friendship
we all mutually enriched each other's lives...
and now it's different, we're busy all the time we can't just chill in the yard and smoke bongloads with mad heads, we're parents
but in new ways we can enrich each others' lives,
by helping each other out as parents having a hard time,
trying to get all this shit done
Hannah be leaving us mad clothes for Elijah, 'cuz little Marc, although two months younger, is bigger than Elijah