Menachem Begin was Dodo’s first cousin. Dodo lived on the ground floor and she and my mother were best friends. Sometimes I babysat her dog Cocoa who pooped on the
I was born in the same year the state of Israel was formed but that’s not exactly the right word— formed is something joined and shaped through stages of development
I might have talked about chicken bones at my first state of the city address and riled the whole city. But I’m not a Donald Trump stirring up the minions
We live in a bafflement of words like smoke from a fire making eyes tear and throats scratchy only we don’t realize we are being talked to death by dyslexic vapors fucking
I talk to my plants. I also talk to my cats while scratching their ears and discussing the weather or what’s for dinner. But plant-to-person communication involves a different kind
Norma was my other friend who became my best friend. We met on the first day of second grade. I was nervous, sitting at my desk listening to Mrs. Hershkovitz,