naima

twice today someone asked me 'bout my middle name... first, a classmate who was just asking a random question i suppose. when i told him, he laughed, as if he'd known someone else with the name. said he liked it, and from now on he was going to call me naima. no more than 3 hours later in best buy, the cashier looked at my DL and asked the same question. 'such a beautiful name,' she said. i told her she should listen to the Coltrane song if she wanted to hear what beautiful sounded like. she was thinking about baby names and would remember mine. she tried it out - 'bye naima,' as i walked away smiling.