i said ‘i want ice cream.’ alec said ‘i saw a place called ‘kill ones’ earlier that had ice cream. it looked like they’d have free fudge samples too.’ passed crowded ben & jerry’s, which i felt indifferent about, but alec and allie seemed averse to standing in line. someone said ‘should we ask the ben & jerry’s people where ‘kill ones’ is?’

walked into a subway. it was hot, they were ‘baking bread.’ the sandwich-makers were busy with two customers. felt eyes looking at us. we were just standing there, saying things about how hot it was, not ordering. i stood a little closer to the employee zone. made eye contact. alec asked if they knew where ‘kill ones’ was. more people looked. alec said ‘it’s an ice cream store? we’re looking for ice cream.’ an employee said we should go to ben & jerry’s.

walked into a gelato store. the employees were helping a gathering of mostly small upset children. the gelato was all sorbet, no ‘ice cream’ kinds. alec or allie said ‘it must be miserable to work here,’ within earshot of the employees. i said ‘yeah it’s really bad in here,’ also within earshot. someone said ‘why did we come in here?’ i said ‘i saw it earlier, i thought it’d have the creamy kind.’ someone said ‘this is all sorbet.’ i said ‘i know, let’s go.’ walked out as a group and looked at a picture on the wall, signed ‘andy warhol.’ we looked at each other and made ‘seinfeld’-like faces and said ‘andy warhol?’ and ‘oh, andy warhol.’

allie walked into a new age-themed accessory shop, with a sidewalk display of tapestries and incense. alec followed allie briefly, then returned outside with an employee following him. alec asked about ‘kill ones.’ the employee used a different pronounciation of ‘kill ones’ and said it was in the opposite direction. allie came out. she said there is a certain kind of rosemary incense she likes, which only some stores have. i asked what it was called. she said ‘i don’t know, i just know it when i see it.’

talked about ‘blue velvet’ while walking to ‘kill ones.’ allie hadn’t seen it. alec said ‘let’s go back and watch it at my house.’ i said ‘do you have it? the movie?’ he said no, he had amazon prime, which gives you free shipping, and offered use of his account to allie and i. he said you could also watch movies with it.

we found ‘kilwin’s.’ it was in a stripmall-type arrangement of stores across from the lobster bar. there were a lot of little colored lights, a lot of lit-up things, little hills or something. as we crossed the street alec said ‘i feel like i’m in disneyworld,’ (i thought ‘me too, he said it right, this feels like the parade at the end of disneyworld [which i had forgotten i’d seen until that moment, i think]) ‘like i’m watching the parade at the end of disneyworld.’ i said ‘me too, me too. it feels like that exactly.’ entering kilwin’s, we talked about people who would go to disneyworld—then newport, rhode island—to save their marriages.