john_updike – blackandwhiteandcolours

I’m going to just relax

Oh, I’m as much of an artist as I have talent for

I can’t drive out of state or carry hazardous materials

I need to put some clothes on or have the heat turned up

There was no less old-fashioned way to put it

Alexandra loved whipping along in Nat’s antique Jaguar with its top down

We need to get out and start doing things

I don’t know how long we’ll be staying

It was hot, with a gritty desert wind hard to breathe in

But I think I’d better go lie down before dinner

A half-baked suburban variety of witchcraft

The man in khaki smiled

There are always those. There’s always that

I’m looking for my hat

The dusk was threatening to enwrap us

The sun was lowering over the blue range to the west