Julie Doiron - Me and My Friend: youtube.com/watch?v=Uo5FLoq4kFk
Have been getting nostalgic lately. I miss some friends.
My friend Katie lives in Australia now, went through some old pictures found a great one of her from when we were friends in Halifax. She lived in a church and had charades parties on weekends, I hate games like that but relented for her for love of her. We went to bars on Sundays, went to a movie together once and she yelled at the screen. She showed me some around Toronto when I moved here but then left soon after has been doing work since in Columbia, Europe. Last we saw each other I went to her parents house and she made me breakfast, looked over her parents art collection in which I once touched a wax painting by accident not knowing it was wax and my finger imprinted when no one was looking. Then her friend drove us downtown, we parted at Bloor and Bay she hugged me and I walked off missing my friend holding every moment for won't see her again for years.
Though will see Katie again. There are other friends I've lost; Lindsay lives in Toronto still but is whole other person now. She used to work in a sex shop, would wander Kensington drinking coffee with me then she'd go to any bar and pick someone up easy, just look in their direction coy. She met my Mom once and they talked about their periods. She was wonderful and beautiful but she wasn't happy, is happy now becoming less bohemian more yuppie trying to take her masters in Women studies, still wonderful and beautiful but whole other person.
Others still. One who helped me through a destructive relationship. One I helped through depression. One I only see when I'm in New Brunswick, a neighbor, a brother. One who simply don't see out at shows anymore.
I think I've been working too much lately.
<3 Julie
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