FORUM: 815,201 people live in San Francisco today. In our latest 'Alone in The City' entry, Ed Brownson writes that 'the number of those living breathing souls I know, after living here for 44 years, is down to an unfilled handful.'
Walking west on 20th Street near Dolores Park, I look up at the house with the two odd-angled doors. David stands in one, beaming his winning, wicked smile, waving, beckoning me in. He is a minx of a man, all carnality and intellect, oddly angled himself. I wave back."Another time, David," I mumble and walk on.
Ricky is beautiful, with a heart and soul to match. So beautiful, he is welcome everywhere he goes, no matter that he’s a gay man from San Francisco. His stories of traveling the Sahara — the Sahara! — passing days and nights with Bedouins in the oases there, are a gay man’s Scheherazade. I don’t see him this time though. Where, I wonder, has Ricky got to now?
On Divisadero near Hayes, I see another David outside his building, sweeping the block. He moved there after two years spent caring for a partner who suffered through every hell the AIDS epidemic had to offer. He hoped the change would heal him, a new neighborhood would give him something to look forward to. It doesn’t. He doesn’t see me waving. David doesn’t see anyone, really. His pain wraps around him too thick, too tight.
John doesn’t notice me standing across the street. He’s too busy figuring out how to paint the restored façade. He didn’t live long enough. The task of choosing colors, hiring a painting crew, seeing the job through, that task passed to me after he died.
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