10,262. ALEXANDRA PELOSI

ALEXANDRA PELOSI

Last year on November 10th, I think it was

-  a few days after the then recent election, 

with Trump  -  or maybe it was the next

Weds., the 17th, I'm not sure but this

girl stopped me, woman, whatever,

and asked if I'd be part of her HBO

documentary by reading the Declaration

of Independence aloud, in City Hall

Park, NYC, about a block and a half

or two from where we were  -  so as

we walked we talked. She was OK, I

thought a little futsy, maybe full of

herself. She said her name was Alexandra,

and I didn't really care. She never used

her last name and I never asked for 

credentials. HBO? What do I know.

It's not the sort of thing I care about

nor was it the sort of thing I'd usually

do, but I had the time and didn't really

care. I felt a put-on coming. The were

few clouds in the sky and City Hall Park

beckoned anyway (I was back-tracking

by walking with her). I did the part of the

read she wanted, three times, in fact. No

big deal, she wrote some stuff down, gave

me my thousand dollars (NO, just kidding),

and I moved on. No I see, when looking 

something else up, that they really made

this show, and it aired on July 4th, 2017, 

and in January will be available to purchase. 

But that's all I know; and I don't eve know 

that I want it, but, man, you don't know 

the anxiety now. It's kind of funny too;

what did they do with my words, how'd I

 play it, where'd I stand? I forget. I know
I goofed it up some, it's easy to flub up,
over-emote, get wise-ass about it all when 
they ask you, in your 'own words' to say 
what it means to you.  Where to look and
how to talk. A million things remain. I also

found out, which I later looked up anyway

so I really already knew, that she's a real

liberal-social-world documentary low-level

film-maker (if that's what they call this), and

her full name is Alexandra Pelosi and she's

the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, that creepy 

San Francisco lady in the Senate. So what do

you know about all that. I rather wished now

it had been a gray and dark and gloomy day

and in the rain all her make-up ran. So,

anyway, if anyone ever sees this thing, tell

me how I look and what the whole thing

comes off a,s but I bet they didn't use a

word I said  -  I've always been a perfect

victim of the cutting-room floor.

Why not once more?