book one redone - Coldbacon

Not part of letter, I guess. Just wondering aloud.
Most of this I wrote on the construction site for this new house going up
down the street from where I live. The fence was only a gesture, knocked
down in parts, which I walked over. I carried the blueprint of my letter
into the structure and quickly made the second floor. There was a third
floor, but the second was good enough. Naked 2x2’s, 4x4’s, jacks, tens,
concrete wells, stairs without rails, sockets, sprockets and dangly things,
crumpled cigarette boxes bought by the carton, washers, nails, would-be
splinters, big open frames—almost like windows. Good enough.
I sat in the future second-story window watching people push their way
down the street. Chuck Jones? Wasn’t he the thirty-second president? I
spit out the future window for no good reason. It was Sunday, but today
was Saturday. Some day a couple paying nine-hundred dollars a month,
good rent, will have their spat in this very room, while a tender four-year
old plays quietly on the carpeted floor. This child will have the benefit of
knowing what it’s like to be Allen Iverson, to be lost and then found, and
all in 3D Slam Vision.
I dreamed this construction site was the set for some new Bugs Bunny
cartoon. They were planning the big pie throwing sequence right here, and
just through that hole, there—the stick of dynamite would be handed,
wrapped up like a gift for Troy. And I was there alone, way before the
man said, “Action!” It was cool. These cardboard boxes are popping up
everywhere. The tenants prize their walls painted gray, giving the
impression of real stone, which makes a wonderful sound of hollow
plywood when you knock it. This is my favorite architectural style—
American throw-up. Gee Pa, they sure don’t make ’em like they used to.
Said the little sign on the chain link fence, “Keep out,” but I didn’t.
“Don’t doubt,” but I do. At first, I was going to send a copy of my old
letter, but I couldn’t find it, and had to write this instead.
Your Friend,
Pablo Bacon (61)
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