Your plans to visit your ex in California fall through. She is on a date with a new boy listening to a Vietnamese band. You carp at her via your palm phone in the taxi cab. Small nuts of red gather on your torso and legs. They spring up one morning without warning. You sabotage your date with Melinda so she won’t have to see your pox. You insult her and she walks away from the table at the 79th Street Boat Club.