04 Hudson

 


  • Where was I?
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  • I was completely jetlagged…
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  • I was completely jetlagged & stood for a long time looking out the bay windows of my relative’s apartment at Riverside Park & at the long barges moving up & down the Hudson River.
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  • Across the water was New Jersey with its gray, glass high-rises, where I could picture a housewife, ironing her husband’s shirts & watching the same soap opera that I could hear, faintly, down the hallway.
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  • Now maybe it was an approaching storm that caused some of the interference in the air we were tuned into — but the image on both our screens was disturbed as the adulterous neighbor of the drama materialized, telepathic, at her door …
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  • No knock.