as i type this i’m listening to the gassy hollow goodbye noise from the pipes … the faucets, the toilet …

it seems a waterline has broken over by the school somewhere … so we have lost our water … for how long? overnight? through tomorrow?

we’ve been here before … a few summers ago … and it wasn’t pretty … some of us may be in motel tonight …

they say we can use the toilets at the school … but won’t the school water be off also? why just us?

the noise is fainter now … a long slow gasping … diminuendo

i just noticed that yesterday was a particularly bad day for u. s. troops in iraq … haven’t seen any tv news lately because our big screen’s color has gone all unconverged … looks like 3-D without the glasses … headache-inducing ..

well, as i was saying …

twenty u. s. troops died yesterday … the story was on page 12 in the Daily Herald, page 12 in the Tribune, page 22 in the Sun-Times … just business as usual, i guess …

these deaths … and the daily deaths of how many iraqis … yesterday and today and tomorrow …

no longer all that newsworthy