a Vitamin Water left in the sink. I’m misreading
my own scribbles again. I believe I wrote done
rather than gone, as in, perhaps, finally clean.
Gone would come later. The bottle is smack dab
in the middle of the sink. I cannot regurgitate the
image. Did I once drink Vitamin Water regularly?
Is that a Southern thing? the Marvel asks about
the phrase smack dab in the middle of. I suppose,
I reply, always turned upside down a bit by the in
appropriate words. Southern for where I’m from, as
told by the man who lives below the Equator, hence
in the Southern Hemisphere. A quick calculation of
how many miles there are from Peru to Arkansas
shows me 3,256. Most all directly northward.
