"Interesting drawing" Jeff observed next to me.
I was startled. Apparently, he had been wandering around the place, he had a cigarette in his hand. I expected him to go on and give me some privacy, instead he plopped down on the floor with me. He pointed to the doodles that he considered a real work of art, it was supposed to be a mushroom cloud like the ones left by nuclear bombs when they explode, he had drawn it while he was thinking up the text he had written right there. I remember it had been in Chemistry class and I had borrowed Halston's markers to give it different shades of grays, yellows, and reds.
"I...was bored and just... started doodling... I was bored.
"Get more bored" he arched his eyebrows: "Do you draw then?”
"No... well, just once in a while to accompany my
