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We look for signs.
Beautiful today.
Not too anything
At 10 this morning
the Asian man was not
sold out of plums.
My friend dolores
who sells on the street
made forty dollars
by 11 o’clock.
If her luck continues
she’ll have a Chinese dinner
tonight,
i bought some earrings
Dolores made and gave them
to Anne another vendor
as a Rosh Hashanah gift,
Anne said
in her next life she’ll be Jewish,
Maybe and maybe not.
There’s a big swap shop
table today. I’ll bring
a handbag of handbags.
i did not read
the Times this morning,
Only poems. I printed
a recipe for noodle kugel
which says don’t use
Manischewitz noodles
upgrade to Al Dente pasta
but I will not upgrade.
I insist on saying every chance I get--this obsession with Al Dente has created more undercooked pasta--more stomach aches--than I can say. You cook the pasta until it is cooked but doesn't have that awful undercooked hard to digest center. I hate undercooked Pasta. But I love the New Year.
Shana Tova Esther! Thanks for your poems. Wishing you and yours a sweet year!