KARMIC EGGPLANT

It works better if you plug it in. I had been wondering why I wasn't getting any of the usual Spam calls, turns out my phone was out of power. What with not being plugged in. Which I discovered just before fixing myself a mediterranean lunch of eggplant, Chinese sausages, chilipaste, ginger, and noodles. Well, okay, not strictly Mediterranean. Um. Not even really very close. The only thing "Mediterranean" about it was the eggplant.

Nice smoky sausages with duck liver.

My Mediterranean relatives would have approved. Not that I have any.
I've got some kinfolk living down south in Santa Barbara.
Wich has been called Mediterranean.


Contact is virtually non-existent. More "karmic" than reality based. Haven't spoken to any of them in years. Don't know if they're still down there. When my mother volunteered for the Waves (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during the war, she was mentioned in the newspaper as the first woman from Santa Barbara to do so.
Radioman (woman) Second Class McClintic.

A few members of the family were still down there last time I checked.

My uncle Jerry, who lived in San Francisco, was the only real link I had with my mother's kinfolk, and when my life went kablooie many years ago I dropped out of sight. When I came back to the surface he had already passed away. A few years later I spoke with one of the Santa Barbara people, but never really 'clicked'. I'm not clickable material, you see.
I hadn't really known any of them while we lived in Holland.
Didn't feel like pulling up the slack.


So the cellphone is not for talking to them, and the only real use it gets is when Indians in callcentres attempt to rope me in as a patsy for whatever crappy scheme they're working on. I mean, no one really calls me, and the few times I've used it in the last six or seven months have been to call my work, or the pharmacy for refills. Friends write. E-mail or Facebook.



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