a bath to end it

(written april 4th.....in bed......in my 3-bedroom apartment in kesthely, hungary....lake balaton....sipping homemade ginger tea........1050pm)

i just had a hot bath.......not a luke-warm shower that ends too quickly.......in which your feet never feel entirely cleansed.......no, a bath...........deep enough to snorkel in......and long enough to press the palms of my feet, legs straight and be emersed to my shoulders....hot enough to make me heady and boil me a nice shade of lobster.....these are the things i take for granted.......and now, i'm buffed and polished.....a good way to end a country......tomorrow, i'm off to craotia.......