About Friends

About Friends
Brian Jones

The good thing about friends
is not having to finish sentences.

I sat a whole summer afternoon with my friend once
on a river bank, bashing heels on the baked mud
and watching the small chunks slide into the water
and listening to them - plop plop plop.
He said, 'I like the twigs when they...you know...
like that.' I said, 'There's that branch...'
We both said, 'Mmmm'. The river flowed and flowed
and there were lots of butterflies, that afternoon.

I first thought there was a sad thing about friends
when we met twenty years later.
We both talked hundreds of sentences,
taking care to finish all we said,
and explain it all very carefully,
as if we'd been discovered in places
we should not be, and were somehow ashamed.

I understood then what the river meant by flowing.

***** *** *****

Boredom.

It's boring at work - I've got nothing to do since I'm done with the assignments they've given me. Final Report? Almost done. I cannot write anything that satisfies me, trust me, I've tried. Work and life so far have been mundane. Nothing largely eventful and stuff like that. Well, other than THAT family issue again, yup. Nothing. I'll post something longer about it in an f-locked post. :P

Had a G4C gathering last Sunday and it was truthfully one of the better, if not the best gathering I've been too. I would've liked to wax lyrical on the gathering, going on about the camaraderie and stuff like that but my vocab isn't up to par. On top of that, I think I'm getting sick. Bleh.

I can't wait to go to the GardenFest tomorrow - I'm thrilled beyond belief. No worries, I'll upload all the pictures I'll be taking by Sunday. I just wish I had more moolah - I want to go watch the Dark Knight. But gah, I'm broke after almost a week of takeout dinners. Even if I cooked, the cost is about the same. Ah well. I hope there's some rice - I've got a craving for fried rice - well, almost anything warm, come to think of it. The office, as I've repeatedly said is just way too cold.

I'd best thaw my fingers now - I can barely type. Until next time!