Christmas Day At The Indian Wells Apartment

Because we had no other plans for that Christmas day 

Thirty-odd years ago

The decision was made, somehow, to wear shorts

And Hawaiian shirts

It was one of those beautiful spontaneous decisions

That only come from being still drunk from the night before

There was a bottle of Blue Hawaiian mix in a cupboard

And a bottle of vodka (mostly full - no one drank vodka then)

The memories of that day are far from crystal clear

We drank, TJ, Greg and I, and ate TJ's homemade pizza
And everybody who came over, Penny, Greg's Hawaiian friend, Decker, maybe even Donna

Put on Hawaiian shirts and drank with us

And we watched VHS movies we had rented from Hastings

To this day I still have no idea what a Blue Hawaiian is