Today

Today I ate fried things from a street stall / watched kids play cricket on the street / saw a goat walking in a market and puppies eating trash by the side of a highway / went to a beach where kids rode in mini electric cars and an old woman pulled dozens of chicken feet from a bag full of chicken feet and fed them to wild dogs who love chicken feet / sunned myself next to the pool at the Taj / saw the body of a dead man on a stretcher covered with flowers carried past me down the street in a Hindu funeral procession headed to the crematorium (the dead man wore a white hat and an open-mouthed look of wonder) / stepped over an open sewer / was approached by a man asking me to be an extra in a Bollywood movie — his business card said: "Bollystars Casting (Specially Western People)" / played Xbox at a friend's apartment / looked away as an elderly couple urinated at the edge of a beautiful park / watched two men lathered up and shaved by barbers on the side of the street / saw a monkey / admired the gated palatial homes of Malabar Hill and the giant Art Deco banged-up jalopies of apartment buildings along Marine Drive / drank a can of iced coffee from a gas station convenience store / passed a sign that said "Special Bus Lane for Best Buses Only" and another that asked "Are You Ready For the Global Gujarati?" / ate squid koliwada and kerala prawns and butter nan and spongy neer dosa and drank Kingfisher beer.

That was today & I got a late start. And it was a Sunday.