Nyquil sleep, unplugged phone. Dead morning battery. Toasted bagel at work, philadelphia cream cheese. Warm energy in the office, december cold brewing. Lunchtime on the building, crab-artichoke dip and swedish meatballs. Apparently there was a terrorist attack in Sweden this weekend...
Listening to the cab driver speaking in a foreign tongue, I recognize phrases and the rhythm. He's Cambodian-born in Battambang. BADDAMBANG.
I come home to a roommate and his girlfriend drinking red wine. We eat goat cheese, kalamata olives, lobster ravioli from trader joe's, and talk about the banking system in the ukraine.
Then my brother calls from israel and we talk about Robert Altman films.
No nyquil tonight.
Loisaida is a term derived from the Latino (and especially Puerto Rican) pronunciation of "Lower East Side", a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. Loisaida Avenue is now an alternate name for Avenue C in the Alphabet City neighborhood of New York City, whose population has largely been Hispanic (mainly Puerto Rican) since the late 1960s.
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