Asinine Rewind

My 2006 poem "Watching Julie's Boyfriend" is available again at AsininePoetry.com.

Exeunt

Wedding celebrated, some 80 strong relations converged on my house yesterday to commemorate two 50th anniversary couples and several birthdays. Cousins from Canada got to meet cousins from The Philippines, and I personally got to have a few words with one I hadn't seen but remembered fondly since age 7 or 8.

And today, two of the larger families leave for L.A. and Hawaii respectively. I'll miss them, even the ones who called me Gerard or George, and inevitably I'll hold mental pictures of them at this age while I don't expect to change my look much. I wasn't the one who took them to Broadway shows or made their dreams of laptops come true. I was the one who looked up driving directions, train schedules, and shopping sites to meet their needs in this digital age.

Wedding Day Jitters

I was all practiced and prepared, sitting just left of the altar to read the Prayer of the Faithful at my cousin Gene's wedding when the overeager first reader bounded up to the podium and read my part. We three readers went over our gameplan just before the ceremony, but I guess the first reader's brain was on autopilot.

At the reception, despite the lingering effects of a hunger headache, I got down with my bad self to "Brick House" and "Funky Town." Good to know I've still got it. Now to see how everything feels in eight hours or so.