From "Sic Transit" (7)
I'm starting to believe that C and D were not anomalies. Perhaps their precedent was set back in '77, by B.
A senior year transfer student, B's elfin features and pentacle necklace recalled the youthful insouciance of Stevie Nicks, while her flippant promiscuousness suggested a glamorous Los Angeles groupie. But she was different from the others, those Aerosmith-loving others who sewed Rolling Stones tongue logo patches onto their crotches and wafted a cloud of strawberry lip gloss, Love's Baby Soft, Key West cigarettes and Clairol Herbal Essence. When B threw back her head to a Foghat song she was pure beauty like a surprise of butterflies once native to these shores but now, sadly, no more. One day at lunch we sat next to each other at the counter of the Back-of-the-Yards Diner and decided to ditch classes together. It was the first day of Spring, unseasonably warm, and Bad Company's new album had just reached number one. We took the 62 Archer downtown and bummed around Chinatown. From there we ranged up State Street past Warshawsky Auto Parts, Mexican Joe's Chili Parlor, and the scrap metal pits, talking of Kiss, Aerosmith and Robert Fripp. Her ability to discuss Fripp put her in league wtih those long-torsoed teenage boy-men who were not Canadian but could've been. We ended up on the short of Lake Michigan, on the wet, sloping cement behind the Shedd Aquarium. Air guitar rhythms spilled forth from her like condensation off a carburetor. What was once sacred became familiar:
"I think all Masses should be celebrated with Stratocasters!"
(to be continued)
A senior year transfer student, B's elfin features and pentacle necklace recalled the youthful insouciance of Stevie Nicks, while her flippant promiscuousness suggested a glamorous Los Angeles groupie. But she was different from the others, those Aerosmith-loving others who sewed Rolling Stones tongue logo patches onto their crotches and wafted a cloud of strawberry lip gloss, Love's Baby Soft, Key West cigarettes and Clairol Herbal Essence. When B threw back her head to a Foghat song she was pure beauty like a surprise of butterflies once native to these shores but now, sadly, no more. One day at lunch we sat next to each other at the counter of the Back-of-the-Yards Diner and decided to ditch classes together. It was the first day of Spring, unseasonably warm, and Bad Company's new album had just reached number one. We took the 62 Archer downtown and bummed around Chinatown. From there we ranged up State Street past Warshawsky Auto Parts, Mexican Joe's Chili Parlor, and the scrap metal pits, talking of Kiss, Aerosmith and Robert Fripp. Her ability to discuss Fripp put her in league wtih those long-torsoed teenage boy-men who were not Canadian but could've been. We ended up on the short of Lake Michigan, on the wet, sloping cement behind the Shedd Aquarium. Air guitar rhythms spilled forth from her like condensation off a carburetor. What was once sacred became familiar:
"I think all Masses should be celebrated with Stratocasters!"
(to be continued)
posted by Sharon Mesmer at 5:31 PM
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