The moon phase has been waxing gibbous. Could it explain partly what happened? Rather, isn't it the fact of the American suburb, the gated-community they call it? Reading Ashbery's "Three Poems" I feel I am inside that poem he has depicted the American suburb in. The vast space between New York and California, as Gertie called it. Only we are in the geographical funnel Sauer called the Alta and Baja Californias. A shape that is "californicate". We are in a drought and I see people, neighbors, usually Asian (Filipino) casually, oh so casually, hosing down the driveway. I want to approach them and say, casually, "are you from the Philippines?... We are in a drought, in fact, for the last two years. Do you think you are in the Philippines that you can go ahead and do that? Waste precious water?"