Portland State (22 January 1994)

     for Deborah G. 

I met Deborah for dinner and drinks at Acapulco’s Gold.  We talked books most the night.  After a while we’d try something else but always give up and go back to more familiar material.   Later, we went back to Portland State, her place in the King Albert Building.  There several different not unpleasant past lives walked beside me as we passed Parkway Manor, Blackstone, Adeline, and St. Helens.  In her kitchen, on the table, a champagne glass upended over a cockroach.