Keith Francese Capriccio Italien she tells me she sings in c minor and I don't know what that means she wants to talk about Tchaikovsky I think Capriccio Italien or something I try to explain to her the difference between dirty good and good dirty I do not succeed she says she once saw a Picasso exhibit in Seoul I saw the same one but do not mention it I decide against giving her my fifteen-minute spiel how Happy Feet and The Road Warrior are really the same story a story about belonging it comes to mind when she speaks of the penguins which thrive on the southern tip of New Zealand the odd-looking ones she's been kayaking on three continents I think about the freshwater dolphins in the Yangtze they're dying she says she doesn't eat artichokes or tomatoes or olives or onions doesn't like the taste I pretend not to hear order the bruschetta