Today, I went in and found some poetry on the board. As I made my way over to the display, I dropped a pack of gum. Maria grabbed it up joyously and proclaimed, "You dropped your GUM!!" We laughed together, although I'm not sure either of us knew why. As I took pictures with my phone, the news on the TV announced the coming storm. I moaned about it, and Maria said that it was no big deal for her, that she walked anyway. "You're stronger than I am!" I said. It was a strange instance of camaraderie over gum and snow.
I had also seen Maria delivering laundry a few days earlier in my apartment building. She had recognized me and had said hello. I was heartened that she acknowledged me outside my usual context, although I'm not sure why I was surprised by it. I find myself avoiding hellos with particularly vague acquaintances but Maria clearly is not swayed by this inexplicable social tendency.
But back to the laundromat. I also took a picture of the terse addition of "Brazil" in the notebook. A lot of the previously written poetry has also been ripped out.
The poem on the board says:
dream
could between
we safe say
she as
you lock
did
trust these
help home
cooperation me opportunity
some here
over easye
grow enter
money job
difficult do
wisdom
community soon
never
for
smell first home community crime
police fear black human the
love white villainy
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