John and I are in our Dakota kitchen in the middle of the night.
Three cats — Sasha, Micha and Charo — are looking up at John, who
is making tea for us two. Sasha is all white, Micha is all black.
They are both gorgeous, classy Persian cats. Charo, on the other
hand, is a mutt. John used to have a special love for Charo. “You’ve
got a funny face, Charo!” he would say, and pat her.
“Yoko, Yoko, you’re supposed to first put the tea bags in, and then
the hot water.” John took the role of the tea maker, for being English.
So I gave up doing it.
It was nice to be up in the middle of the night, when there
was no sound in the house, and sip the tea John would make.
One night, however, John said: “I was talking to Aunt Mimi this afternoon
and she says you are supposed to put the hot water in first. Then the tea
bag. I could swear she taught me to put the tea bag in first, but ...”“So
all this time, we were doing it wrong?”“Yeah ...”We both cracked up.
That was in 1980. Neither of us knew that it was to be the last year
of our life together.(...)On this day, the day he was assassinated,
what I remember is the night we both cracked up drinking tea.They say
teenagers laugh at the drop of a hat. Nowadays I see many teenagers sad
and angry with each other. John and I were hardly teenagers. But my
memory of us is that we were a couple who laughed.
Yoko.
quote from wild at heart