Arielle on Kipling Street

By

Billy McBride

Copyright 2010, by William McBride ISBN 978-0-557-92286-4

1. Superior Arielle, before she became my Angel wife, once told me that my family and I were misbred; all I wanted to do was to gain her affection.

2. A lady in the store came over to me and told me it was nice to meet a spirit like me, that she liked the monument model I was working on, and that I might be famous.

3. I rode my sophisticated bike without concern for direction or anything bad in a blissful solitude.

4. I showed Arielle my impressive book collection from which I would learn things from.

5. We went to the eclectic Houston Symphony together, and she brought her Judaism study book.

6. I smoked with her many cigarettes and pot with her, illegally for our private fun.

7. In horror I smashed my finger, but Arielle couldnt take me to the hospital.

8. I had to stomach many debts.

9. Arielle rode he rollerblades and I rode my bike all over the streets and neighborhoods of Houston while we both talked.

10. She felt giddy, going to try out Amsterdam, Holland.

11. I felt at peace to barely fall asleep next to her when high.

12. She demanded to know why I was creeping outside of my door, why I didnt help the screaming lady in trouble the night before; and she broke off her friendship with me.

13. She had trouble finding money for food now and again and cried.

14. Arielle had no choice but to get a boring job at the record store.

15. I was smoking pot while working against the clock while putting together my different architectural models at home.

16. I wanted to very badly, but never made a sale during the time I worked for the Houston Symphony.

17. Domestically, her dishes were washed and put on newspaper.

18. She blasted loud musical hits from her Bose stereo and radio.

19. I blasted a hundred loud songs from my Sony stereo.

20. The vivid neighborhoods we rode through were quite peaceful.

21. The horse stables we visited were calm and fenced.

22. Arielle was mad that I didnt make a homeless man whom she mothered, named Rodney take a bus back to Louisiana.

23. I busted my middle finger closing a window; and I feared I would have to have it amputated, and I would never again be able to play the piano.

24. She gave me the best gifts to play with: cake, a Texas Almanac, tea boxes and more.

25. Donna, her friend was glad I calmed Arielle down when she was having a bad nightmarish day.

26. I wanted to spend all my time with her in her care.

27. Arielle felt loved by God, held Sabbath and went to a Synagogue.

28. We looked at and discussed art.

29. I made up my mind to wait for her patiently everywhere.

30. She was loyal and would stick up for me.

31. I borrowed my Moms car so that Arielle could set her plant in it.

32. Arielle and I were a picture, crying when listening to Rachmaninoffs Piano Composition at the Symphony in the late winter.

33. We became frustrated with each other during a creepy and heavy storm.

34. We rushed to the Symphony with our pal, Dan.

35. We wandered carelessly and camouflaged into and out of theaters.

36. After getting the call to go out, we split up into two different theaters during the first night we saw movies.

37. Arielle had a strange labyrinthine apartment.

38. I thought it strange and alien, the way she said negotiate.

39. We felt good making plans to live and keep together.

40. Her playful friendship with me was a new experience.

41. I was in awe over her attractiveness, how she attracted kids and people wherever she went.

42. I worried over her super-sociality and being left out.

43. Arielle had trash painted the same color as her turquoise pants!

44. I asked her to marry me in a book I picked out.

45. Sometimes it was boring sitting and listening to her talk with other people.

46. I was sometimes scared and had butterflies in my stomach when going out with her to shows, to her friends, and to clubs where we never had to stand in line.

47. We had a good time watching the Cirque du Soleils nights show for free.

48. I helped her write papers for school; she wanted to become a Montessori teacher for kids.

49. On our dates, we helped introduce others to high arts.

50. We listened to street rap.

51. Arielle was stuck on hating some people.

52. I stopped wanting to be outside and to make friends as much.

53. Arielle found my recording which I made of reciting Rimbauds poetry bananas!

54. I found her flowery charitable nature weird.

55. Arielle tapped me and was very eloquent and confident on the phone.

56. I came out of my shell and spoke well and with confidence about philosophy.

57. She was as charming as a teacher in her postcards which I received from her from Germany, Amsterdam, Holland and Boulder, Colorado.

58. She played name-games with kind strangers, and wanted to get to know them and the place into which we all of us were thrown.

59. I lost hope in staying in old Houston after I was evicted.

60. She lost hope in boys, who were mean to her.

61. She was one reckless driver.

62. I would pass up glassy opportunities to spend with my own friends to be with her.

63. She had to go to the restroom during the middle of an exciting symphony!

64. I was embarrassed to meet the gifted and rich people whom she knew.

65. The sunsetting light in her room was otherworldly.

66. Arielle was the most beautiful smooth woman on Earth I ever saw.

67. My apartment was a mess; I slept on the floor on an ugly bed, golden roaches flew in as I was moving out.

68. Arielles next-door neighbor, Eddy had a flag from the South stuck up on his wall.

69. When I was alone and high as a helicopter, I was afraid the police would catch me.

70. When she came back to visit me at my place, I felt safe.

71. I took my bongo drums with us on a trip to the Hermann Park trails to run.

72. Once she wanted me to steal someones red bicycle; she stole some shoes once.

73. She got mad at me when I removed her boyish hat.

74. Arielle was spooked by my Dad coming up.

75. She made fun of my sad Mom.

76. She was always right; she called me Wilbur and made fun of me too, even after borrowing money!

77. She was dramatically hurt once when I whispered something to my Mom.

78. It was childish of her to want to buy a plant leaf shiner to touch up her plant with.

79. I played for her an old cowboy western song in my bad taste.

80. Arielle wore very sophisticated clothes from top to bottom.

81. I had good taste in classical music - Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff.

82. We pals both went to Rice University to study.

83. I selfishly wanted to see her at the close of my time in Houston, Texas as I was moving to back at my parents home.

84. She was a good reader of books and things.

85. She hit the bottom and had depression.

86. I was evicted for not solving my problem of how to pay my bills.

87. I won an argument with her ladder-climbing lawyer friend at his home when we were high; she told him he would never make a good judge.

88. She always was able to coax me into going out with her to see new things.

89. She invented a great way to pick up and move furniture using a tablecloth to pull it across the floor.

90. I learned to always trust her.

91. She called my landlady, Miss Summers, bad names, and tried to get me to, but I wouldnt dare.

92. I was naturally obsessed with her, I read her diary without her being aware, and I was wounded.

93. I wish I had kept to read more of the Letter to a Jew that I found that she wrote.

94. She had to stomach withdrawl symptoms from substances.

95. I rushed myself to eat pineapples sometimes.

96. She feared losing any hungry-fought-for argument.

97. I was in fear in those moments over her books on Future Shock and Hitler.

98. I was just learning by myself to reactivate the new beginnings of my own Gnosticism.

99. Things would always seem to work out for her; she would always get her way because she had the power to convince anyone of their own potential awesomeness and hope.

100. She came to me an married me in the parking lot of HEB as an invisible Angel, remembering me, her friend, a few years after jumping out a window to her death.

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