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Night Life (Or, Me and Van Gogh Visit San Remy)

Last night I was in that other place where I really live. We were all sitting around on blankets, picnicking near San Remy. The weather was picture perfect,  and Vincent was painting the same god-awful landscape he always paints, this time on a used canvas he'd stolen  from the Louvre. Well, he'd finally shaved off that silly  goatee, and his new haircut looked to be 'early chainsaw' with strands standing straight up around his ears, and all the ends jagged. He was painting poppies, using broad strokes and huge globs of vermilion. (Vincent never blends.) After the second bottle of vodka I was feeling pretty damn good, teasing, just joking around, unbuttoning my blouse and telling Vincent to paint me naked, with a rose between my teeth, like Carmen. Vincent said he'd already painted me, as a giant sunflower and those petals didn't cover much! I began prancing round and round, flapping my non-existent petals. We were laughing pretty hard when  you (or was it that old fart Michelangelo?) told a stupid joke about a cowboy and a girl in a trailer park. I really lost it then, laughing, rolling on the ground. I said, "I might even REMEMBER  that cowboy!" I laughed so hard  my teeth fell out. Some short guy (Lautrec, I think) picked them up, but I couldn't put them back in yet, because we were still laughing. Then, I must have fallen asleep,  because I found myself back here in this bed, reliving for the hundredth  time, a stale New Jersey  dream.

Copyright © September 2002 carole j mennie


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