In
the Blink of an Eye
Episode 334: The Ties that Bind
Michael
did not got to Paris. Suzanne, hiding in Jack's closet, overheard Sam
and Jack plotting to kill Lucille and split her fortune in probate.
In a fit of jealousy, Julie stole Reno's Porche and drove to Minneapolis.
Sara, still in a coma, had visions of a mysterious man in green. In
Port Charles, a planeload of grapefruit arrived for Frederick. Frederick
refused to sign the import papers because they were not pink grapefruit.
A spider hid in the grapefruit. Ernestine presented her case against
Sam to the tribunal to have him disbarred. Two men roughed her up in
the parking garage elevator when she left the courthouse. Frances was
robbed at gunpoint in Monte Video, and lost her passport. She could
not find the U.S. Embassy and two women who spoke German coerced her
into a BMW driven by a man in a big yellow hat. Meanwhile, Kate and
Alex continued to argue over who should be invited to their upcoming
wedding. Trevor and Alison eloped to Springfield after Trevor robbed
a liquor store and accidentally shot a boy riding a bicycle. At the
hospital, Jack refused to treat the boy, citing personal reasons. Terry
recognized the boy's uncanny resemblance to Jack's third-grade picture.
Two Short Poems
I.
These are the poems
my mother wrote
on the back of
a postcard
sent from the
eastern coast
of Mexico
in 1972.
Chocolate
and cigarettes
and goat milk cheese.
II.
She said she eats too many tomatoes
and their acidity turns her stomach sour
and then the burning begins.
It is
an easy diagnosis.
Stop eating tomatoes
and the burning will stop.
She says
the tomatoes
are too good,
are meant
to be eaten this way
round and ripe and full
in their juiciness.
When tomatoes
are
warm, with salt,
eaten raw with a
scoop of cold cottage cheese
and a chunk of
fresh-baked bread,
who cares
about the burning?
Copyright © 2001 Matthew W. Schmeer
