The encounter between the hospital’s flower girl, exhorting her flowers and Italian tomatoes at a dollar a box.
“Choose your desire, Major Fenton”, she said, trumping her beat as thou she hadn’t heard that the cardiologists on the fourth floor had induced a coma on 81 year old comedienne Joan Rivers...
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“Quando monyah for the bouquet? How did you remember myname, Princess? Where did we break the ice?” asked MajorFenton , taking a page from the 81 year old Joan Rivers, herselftaking a breather.. Her life crossing the Fentons in the Jet Bluewaiting room’s flight to the City of Angels.
She was a loner in the middle of the waiting room penthouse:boots above her knees, a furtive look in her eyes, her gearleathered with her lean and hungry stance.
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“Don’t you remember me, sir” asked the flower girl. “MidwoodHigh School library. You were at the computers, assisting MisterKelly under the big windows. I was at the desk, checking outbooks.,Before E books before the cyber space scene really took off.”
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“Jim Harrick, the UCLA basketball coach, post the immortal coach Wooden, had been caught in a wishful thinking recruitingat Subways in Westwood,” recalled the flower girl, rememberinghr past High School Internet education ; now grooming as a flower entrepreneur on the corner, below the Cardiology 4thfloor surgery.
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A viajo to Bel Air’s gated community off of Sunset Boulevard rd and the UCLA campus guest house. A stone’s throw away.
The comedienne and her late husband business manager staying off Stone Canyon Road….not the man se of Molly Picon, a comedienne in her own “Park yer carcus” comedic commentary.
The likes of the sterling screen’s Billie Burke or Zasu Pitts Martha Raye comes to mind as second baanas.
Being stand up funny is the rub. The galaxy torn asunder wherever a human being looks. Humanity in a fierce struggle for its very Soul.
But what could agingMajor Fenton say to the ‘ Hornet’s Nest’Midwood High alumni library aide, now playing out her role asthe hospital corner flower girl in her quest for the dollar bill..
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Meanwhile the cardiologists on the fourth floor were into their blood pressure monitors, the nurses monitoring the breathing ofa 81 year old comedienne, fighting the struggle of her performing life.
August 31,2014 The City that never sleeps
