Bright as boatwashwe head for Montreal,to Will’s house.Will’s birthday.Here’s Will!New green sofa,
glass of Malbec,roughhousing with the dog on the rug.I love the rug.It’s blue like a swimming pool.Will gives us T-shirts from Japan.We give him bath bombs.Ruben and Ed show up from Buenos Aires.We set off for Parc X.
Get lost.Find Parc X.Sit at outdoor tables.Waiter draws a breath of horrorwhen I put an ice cube in my winebut then, discoveringit’s Will’s birthday,
brings us course after courseincluding an octopus flavored with pine.Dinner goes on and on.Birthday gâteau to finish and all the waitersstanding round to sing, handing out Calvados.It rains.
But we are under an awning.That seems perfect.Drive Ruben and Ed to their hotel.Everyone hugs everyone.Back at Will’sWill says best birthday since 1968.I have some reservations but they are narcissist:
once again too…
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