the spring we talked about efficiency

notes from march

1. The Valley I

We decide on an early breakfast. He’s living in the Valley now, in a house with a vegetable plot and a convertible we drive up to his favorite New York deli. He’s a New Yorker. He tells me this like I haven’t known him for ten years. “So you know, I love the deli.”

We sit outside and order latkes and egg scrambles and he tells me about the 22…