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Epistle
Seven - Letter from Pedro to James
James,
Hey,
Did you hear me yelling out that
you should be killed? God that was funny. You should have seen the
look on your face. You can imagine my initial surprise when I
realized it was you playing the lead. I'm not sure if you'd heard or
not but I'm currently traveling with my sister in law and some of
her cousin's kids and we just happened to decide to go to a
performance. For the first half I wasn't sure it was you since my
seats were way in the back but pretty soon I knew it had to be (that
little jump you do when you're pretending to be irritated gave it
away). I tried to think of a way to catch you off guard and it
suddenly came to me. I knew you couldn't see me over the lights so I
charged the stage and shouted. "He should be killed for telling
a joke like that." To be quite honest I expected a little more
reaction from the rest of the crowd but in hindsight I've decided
that most of them must have been fast asleep as it seems pretty
clear that we were the only
people under 80 in attendance. And even though I was escorted out it
was worth it because it allowed me some time to walk the streets
alone and think about things. Anyway it was a surprise to see you on
stage after all these years.
Florida and the rest of the trip
has been great. It's been nice to get away and live a totally
different life for awhile. My S in L Cecelia suggested the trip
after I got laid off and it was just what the doctor ordered. She's
using it to experiment to see if she wants to settle down and have a
family and I get to pretend I'm someone else for a few weeks. The
kids have been great and we've been doing all the touristy things
along with some slumming and hard drinking. I'd highly recommend it but I
guess as an actor this is what you pretty much get to do all the
time anyway. The difference being that nobody rushes up to me and
suggests that I need to be killed. That was really funny. I can't
stop chuckling about it.
Amy is doing fine back at home and
is hard at work with the new job. She travels quite a bit so she
doesn't miss me all that much I'm pretty sure. When she was in town it
wasn't all that pleasant to be honest so the time apart has to be
doing us some sort of good. It's not healthy for either party for a wife to come
home from a hard days work and see their spouse sitting around
looking all hang dog and pathetic with a bunch of empties strewn
about so this trip is working out for
the both of us. Cecelia has plenty of money from her modeling so
it's not costing me a dime.
Whoops, one of the little ones
needs a diaper change so I've gotsta go go. I'll try to catch up
with you again if we see that your show is on in any of the towns we
pass through. I'd like to see how it ends. I think I remember that
the novel it was based on was an unfinished work so I'm curious to
know how your director dealt with that situation. Evidently not curious enough
to refrain from rushing the stage and suggest at the top of my lungs that you be killed
though. Didn't you think that was funny? I can't tell you how that tickles me.
Anyway so if I don't run
into you I'll give you a call when you get back to NYC. Maybe
Cecelia and I could come hang out with you there for awhile after we
drop the kids off. We can use it as sort of a decompression chamber
before we head back to our other lives. We're going to need some
sort of transition I'm afraid and it may not be pretty. Might as
well be in the big apple around other dysfunctionals.
Later gator,
Pedro
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