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I think its called auditory hallucination. A jet will fly over or a fire engine will drive by and ten minutes later, I'll still hear its engine or siren. Faintly, like an echo. Last night a helicopter buzzed the rooftop. A while later I could still hear it. I stared at the ceiling listening hard. It sounded different, erratic. Sputtering followed by a full second of silence. Then, BOOM! I ran out to where the sound of the rotor was still shredding the down leaves of the large date palm. Nobody was out – had no one else heard it? I thought it was a "whirly pigs" machine at first but it turned out to be a couple. He had built it 'copter himself in the garage. She was dead but he was still ...
"How do YOU feel about that Peter?" the marriage counselor asked - waking me from my daydream. Relationship therapist. Has it come to this? Estee Diamond MS, LMFT. What kind of name is that anyway? A name for an "exotic" dancer maybe. That or a spoiled daughter of a dentist, Reseda High school class of 1980, which is probably closer to the truth. And aren't those initials on the Lucky Strike label?
Gidget is in Mexico on a surfing safari again. Things were getting hairy. Gnarly, better yet. It got to the point where I was drawing the Batman logo over and over, on everything. The last time I saw her she gave me a box of Cracker Jacks as a kiss-off. A surprise in every box? L.A.M.F.
Today I have to go to my buddy's wedding. How ironic. I told the best man yesterday that I have the perfect one liner for "the speech". Keeping in mind my buddy's president of a large and powerful local union. Here it goes:
"I hope this is one union that doesn't go on strike."
He rejected it. How can you reject that? Its gold I tell you! Gold!Later, afterward at the diner, choking down a dry turkey club. Our waitress asked if everything was ok, breaking the silence that hung between us. I just stared into space – in the distance I could hear the whop whop whop of a helicopter.