Written on the balcony, ‘don’t throw garbage!’
“Insulatsiya!”
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“Izolatziya!”
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“Inzoolataiya!”
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“Izolatziya be!”
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“Izolatziya!” Insulation.
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“А, taka.” Like that.
“I want to cover my apartment in it, and make it all pretty, and save on heat, but even a gasonira studio apartment like mine with only one exterior wall and a closed in balcony is expensive.
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“How expensive?”
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“500lv!”
“First I have to get my teeth done, otherwise I’m going to start speaking like you!”
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She laughs, exposing the missing teeth in her lower row.
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“bez kozmetika, baba kakvo pravi!?”
without the cosmetic things, what’s a baba to do!?