So I had yet another dream with Johnny Bench in it last night. He owned a deli on Flatbush Ave near the Fulton St corner and he just got all the paper work done to have a flower stand in front and leased it out to a Ecuadorian guy who only wanted to sell flowers to save up money so that he could work at a marina in the summer and totally live it up. He had never seen the ocean before so he was really excited. Johnny Bench was inside trying to figure out which products to stock his store with. I told him – when in doubt “stock it.” He really got a kick out of that “when in doubt, stock it” he kept saying “man, stock that!” “stock you!” he laughed and laughed. I laughed too but in a different way. I left the store on the corner of Flatbush and looked up at a bright pink sky – “red sky in morning; sailors take warning” I saw the Ecuadorian fellow fixing up the flower arrangement and thought of the marinas and walked off into the morning.
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