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On Earth, Today

April 22, 2005 by discocisco

Some days are tragically plain. And it seemed plain as day, at five thirty today, that this would be one of them. The giddiness I usually feel as I drive over the Golden Gate Bridge was safely restrained in the back-seat, writing words in the fogged-up window. I let the radio do the screaming while I floated through the hills of Petaluma. A singer on the radio yelled, “Oh yeah,” but I didn’t feel it. I wondered, does he feel naked when he sings like that?

Then I got to work and was reminded by an underwhelming Yahoo! banner that today is Earth Day. Yahoo! gets more excited about National Tampon Day. They could learn a thing or two from Elsa Fuentes. I know I did.

A fellow sophomore, Elsa came into my French II class to make a school-sanctioned presentation about how fucked we all were. She had brought with her a host of visual aids and a swap-meet-bought boom-box on which she played the Babbling Brook cassette tape as background music. I knew what it was because I would play that cassette to myself when I was sad. On the B side, I had Richard Clayderman’s piano renditions of For Elise, Imagine, and the theme from Romeo and Juliet. If doom ever sounded pretty, it was during Elsa’s presentation.

For the fifteen minutes that we learned about Earth Day, we suspended our usual preoccupations with marijuana and premarital sex to think about our collective mother. In fact, for a moment, I actually pictured myself sitting down with my parents and telling them (in Spanish, of course) all about how I really wanted us to reduce and reuse a whole lot more. Passion, like a mighty river, ran through us. And it poured out of Elsa.

She loved the earth. And she loved talking about the earth. And she loved moving around a lot while loving and talking about her love of the earth – to such an extent that, two minutes into the presentation, she began to sweat like a hog on an auction block. Her diluvian perspiration, which I thought at first was a visual aid, seemed to worsen hyperbolically as her earth-saving arm-waving increased. I felt awkward, not because she was sweating, but because she was admitting to taking the whole thing so seriously by sweating so much.

Despite that rough, wet start, Elsa and I ended up becoming friends, and we had a brilliantly sensuous menage-a-trois with the earth that lasted for almost a year. We would walk around after school picking up garbage and we would talk about how the Earth was so crucial to, like, everything but how it was, like, totally taken for granted and stuff. Then she would talk about how her dad beat her and how she couldn’t, sometimes, stop eating and throwing up. I mostly listened and once in a while alluded to a secret I just couldn’t talk about. I preferred to tell her instead, stories about the motherland and how we rode hogs to market on rainy days to avoid getting stuck in the mud of the unpaved road. She was the first one I made a runaway pact with. It was all inarticulate, but earnest. And versus today’s jaded articulation, I’m not sure which I prefer.

Elsa never stopped sweating. In the line of fire, on the forefront of the war to defend planet Earth, she fell in love with a labor organizer named Miguel. I think my stories about the tropical jungles piqued her interest in the brown man. They met at a coalition-building conference. He got up and started talking about the people, hit all of the keywords, and worked up an underarm storm that made Elsa say “forever.” They moved in together three months later and three months after that, she was transporting her pregnant belly across state lines, with Miguel, to go build unions in the Arizona farmland. That was the last I heard of Elsa.

So today, I guess I’m wondering whether Elsa still celebrates Earth Day, or if it’s just another plain day for her too.

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on 26 Apr 2005 at 11:51 am1 Alison

I felt awkward, not because she was sweating, but because she was admitting to taking the whole thing so seriously by sweating so much.

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She was the first one I made a runaway pact with. It was all inarticulate, but earnest. And versus today’s jaded articulation, I’m not sure which I prefer.

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