Seersucker   The seersucker suit turns down a drink. I’ve seen you drinking wine before though, someone says. Chicken and onions, talk of his Soho… receding, recession. It’s a plain dinner we receive, but good all the same.

Kindness I Suppose   These were the days pitched from morning straight into night, the days of vodka 7s in the shower, of you bringing the first good guitar any of us owned over and playing all day long— those broken songs it was, and lives too hard for us to have fully understood. A…