My first wife was a gorgeous long-haired brunette with whom I lived in an apartment in a large city. She cheated and I ended it. I was left financially fucked. The second wife had a short haircut and seemed more mature than the last. We married in Atlantic City after a brief cocktail at a bar that overlooked the neon landscape. We did well for a while but we began to have fights that ended with me throwing televisions through the walls of a hotel room. We divorced. I kept all my money this time. The next wife was a blonde Norwegian woman who seemed quite kind and settled down in her ways. We lived together in a wine country. We planned to develop our own vineyard. I was away at work a lot and she seemed to feel I didn’t care. She left me. She didn’t want any of my scant financial holdings. The fourth woman to be my wife was vague in her appearance, but young and eager to please. I taught her things. She seemed genuinely interested in being with me. I painted nude portraits of her and wrote poetry. We lived on a boat until she met a young man at a South African port and ran away to be with him. I sailed as far south as the boat could take me and shot myself in the head. My body never decayed and the boat floated into a cluster of icebergs. I was pulverized.
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The universe provides insight
My first wife was a gorgeous long-haired brunette with whom I lived in an apartment in a large city. She cheated and I ended it. I was left financially fucked. The second wife had a short haircut and seemed more mature than the last. We married in Atlantic City after a brief cocktail at a bar that overlooked the neon landscape. We did well for a while but we began to have fights that ended with me throwing televisions through the walls of a hotel room. We divorced. I kept all my money this time. The next wife was a blonde Norwegian woman who seemed quite kind and settled down in her ways. We lived together in a wine country. We planned to develop our own vineyard. I was away at work a lot and she seemed to feel I didn’t care. She left me. She didn’t want any of my scant financial holdings. The fourth woman to be my wife was vague in her appearance, but young and eager to please. I taught her things. She seemed genuinely interested in being with me. I painted nude portraits of her and wrote poetry. We lived on a boat until she met a young man at a South African port and ran away to be with him. I sailed as far south as the boat could take me and shot myself in the head. My body never decayed and the boat floated into a cluster of icebergs. I was pulverized.
I was an old man. Eighty-some years old. Strong, vigorous, shriveled, and bald as a plucked chicken. Beard of a God—one of those visions. There was a kindly old lady sitting beside me. She was brushing the longest, thickest, shiniest hair this side of the moon. She was also small-looking and wrinkled everywhere. Not that it mattered. She was absolutely radiant. We were both of us naked as the day they cut the cord and still in bed on a Sunday. The church bells were tolling in the distance and I was feeling grumpy. Something about work to do. I wouldn’t be the first to get out of bed. I lay there, staring at the ceiling through a haze of myopia. She eventually put her brush down and exited into the hall. I stood after her and shakily put on a pair of loose-fitting gray trousers, a large white shirt, and wool socks. The church bells continued. I walked into a narrow hallway that creaked in response to my every step. I heard the kettle come to a boil. The air was filled by an unseen presence, or perhaps a heavy concentration of steam and orange oil. The old lady, who was now in a long gray gown, walked past me and into the bathroom while I ventured to the front door. When I opened it I saw the front stoop of the house I presumably lived in and a vast ocean that stretched from one side of my poor sight to the other. I realized I forgot my glasses. There was a newspaper at my feet and beside it an old maid cat with long bobcat fur on both sides of its face. I picked up the paper and the cat plodded in beside me. It felt like it was time to sit, so I proceeded to the wooden table near the kitchen. The old lady appeared from the hallway and placed my glasses on the table. I tapped her on the ass when she turned away. She skipped a step. I smelled slightly burned toast. The church bells stopped and I said, “Good morning.”
I was an old man. Eighty-some years old. Strong, vigorous, shriveled, and bald as a plucked chicken. Beard of a God—one of those visions. There was a kindly old lady sitting beside me. She was brushing the longest, thickest, shiniest hair this side of the moon. She was also small-looking and wrinkled everywhere. Not that it mattered. She was absolutely radiant. We were both of us naked as the day they cut the cord and still in bed on a Sunday. The church bells were tolling in the distance and I was feeling grumpy. Something about work to do. I wouldn’t be the first to get out of bed. I lay there, staring at the ceiling through a haze of myopia. She eventually put her brush down and exited into the hall. I stood after her and shakily put on a pair of loose-fitting gray trousers, a large white shirt, and wool socks. The church bells continued. I walked into a narrow hallway that creaked in response to my every step. I heard the kettle come to a boil. The air was filled by an unseen presence, or perhaps a heavy concentration of steam and orange oil. The old lady, who was now in a long gray gown, walked past me and into the bathroom while I ventured to the front door. When I opened it I saw the front stoop of the house I presumably lived in and a vast ocean that stretched from one side of my poor sight to the other. I realized I forgot my glasses. There was a newspaper at my feet and beside it an old maid cat with long bobcat fur on both sides of its face. I picked up the paper and the cat plodded in beside me. It felt like it was time to sit, so I proceeded to the wooden table near the kitchen. The old lady appeared from the hallway and placed my glasses on the table. I tapped her on the ass when she turned away. She skipped a step. I smelled slightly burned toast. The church bells stopped and I said, “Good morning.”
Open the door.
The guy knelt before the screen door. He pressed his weight against the aluminum frame and attempted to peer through the glass window of the wooden door beyond the screen.
He said, “Damn, baby. Damn. Why you gotta do this, baby? Why? Don’t be like that, girl. Come here. Come here. Please, baby, I’m sorry! Please, baby, please. Just, come on, baby. Come on. You don’t gotta do this. You don’t gotta leave me out in the cold. Keep me warm, girl. I need yo love. I need you. Damn, girl. You cold. You gonna do this? You gonna do this? Fuh real? You fuh real just gonna leave me here? Just break my heart, girl? Please, baby! Don’t… do… this! She wasn’t no thing, girl! She wasn’t no love like we got. We got love, girl. We got love! Talk to me. Come on, girl. Goddamn it open the door. Open the door! Open this mothafuggin door. I’ll wait for you all my life, girl. I’ll sit here all my lives in this universe. I’ll sit here, baby, and you open the door when you ready. Remember we promised? You remember that? We gonna have so many kids, baby. We gonna make em and have a big house. Like a mansion, girl. And yo momma livin with us and my brothers and sisters. We got dreams, baby. Open the door and let’s make our dreams come true. Come on, girl. It’s gettin cold out here without you. We got a future ahead of us, baby. We got the world. I’m like Scarface. We gonna do this. We gonna be the best. Ain’t no one make you feel like jelly. No one hits that pussy like me, girl. Makin you quiver. Makin you quiver, girl, like it’s icy hot. Like it’s my love inside you. Girl. Baby! Just open the door and I promise you ain’t gonna be sorry. You gonna be my queen, you gonna have it all. Girl. It’s gettin cold. Open the door, baby.”
Open the door.
The guy knelt before the screen door. He pressed his weight against the aluminum frame and attempted to peer through the glass window of the wooden door beyond the screen.
He said, “Damn, baby. Damn. Why you gotta do this, baby? Why? Don’t be like that, girl. Come here. Come here. Please, baby, I’m sorry! Please, baby, please. Just, come on, baby. Come on. You don’t gotta do this. You don’t gotta leave me out in the cold. Keep me warm, girl. I need yo love. I need you. Damn, girl. You cold. You gonna do this? You gonna do this? Fuh real? You fuh real just gonna leave me here? Just break my heart, girl? Please, baby! Don’t… do… this! She wasn’t no thing, girl! She wasn’t no love like we got. We got love, girl. We got love! Talk to me. Come on, girl. Goddamn it open the door. Open the door! Open this mothafuggin door. I’ll wait for you all my life, girl. I’ll sit here all my lives in this universe. I’ll sit here, baby, and you open the door when you ready. Remember we promised? You remember that? We gonna have so many kids, baby. We gonna make em and have a big house. Like a mansion, girl. And yo momma livin with us and my brothers and sisters. We got dreams, baby. Open the door and let’s make our dreams come true. Come on, girl. It’s gettin cold out here without you. We got a future ahead of us, baby. We got the world. I’m like Scarface. We gonna do this. We gonna be the best. Ain’t no one make you feel like jelly. No one hits that pussy like me, girl. Makin you quiver. Makin you quiver, girl, like it’s icy hot. Like it’s my love inside you. Girl. Baby! Just open the door and I promise you ain’t gonna be sorry. You gonna be my queen, you gonna have it all. Girl. It’s gettin cold. Open the door, baby.”
Patiently observing.
I knew a friend who worked as a prostitute. She appeared often and may’ve lived in a nearby apartment, or perhaps as a roommate. She was always around when I got in from work. She had short black hair that always as if she’d just fucked someone. Messy. Her indifferent eyes were sunk into the mascara and kohl-rimmed shadows and were her most attractive feature.
There was another girl there with whom I was amiable. She was definitely a roommate.
For several days I would get home and become immediately aroused for no reason other than I am capable of it. The first girl would emerge from a room somewhere and stroll by casually, cigarette in between chapped lips, and we would talk for several minutes. I immediately knew that I trusted her enough to talk to her honestly, openly, though I do not know what we discussed. Sometimes, the definite roommate of mine, a redhead, would emerge and sit on the couch to read a book, at which point the first girl would say goodbye and finish her smoke in the hall.
This kept on for many days until one day when I was sitting on the balcony. I had a brown liquor in hand and watched the sunset while nursing a raging erection. I stood and entered the apartment to look for the dark-haired girl, who surely enough appeared from somewhere unseen with a cigarette in hand and disheveled hair. She strode to the kitchen counter and waited for the microwave to ding. I produced a hundred dollar bill from my pocket and approached her. I asked, “What’ll this buy me?” feeling no moral qualm, nor sense of being cheap and tactless. She hesitated for a moment but instantly understood my meaning. She took the hundred and said, “Anything you want. Fuck me any way you want.” Her face was done up in a coy smirk. She took the hundred and went to wait for me in the giant bed that sat just a few feet away in the living room. The redhead roommate appeared to sit on the couch and although I was chomping at the bit to get started, I could not do so with her sitting idly by reading a book. I approached her and and explained: “Listen, can you see her over there? I am about to make her sing my name out. You can hang out, or…” She expressed what can only be called a disgusted whatever and gathered her book. I saw a flash of her parting her legs to reveal a golden bush, but it was only a dream within. “Actually,” I said, “that would be amazing. Why don’t you join us?” And then she was gone.
I returned to my other friend (who was impatiently waiting in bed) and proceeded to hold her wrists while I fucked her from behind, feeling that there was no other human state in which I’d rather be, all animal and fluids, making her sing my name out to a pitch black void.
At the end, a friend whose opinion mattered to me appeared at the station where I waited for my train each morning. She told me she’d been waiting for me in the innocent way of not knowing something deeply personal, smiled wide, and waved at the other two girls I’d just been with. The dark-haired prostitute and the redheaded roommate sat on opposite benches and appeared as they had in the apartment—engaged in cigarette and book, respectively. The train station friend asked me what I’d been up to. She was also someone I trusted. I felt no different than before I’d been with the dark-haired friend, and in fact was glad to have relieved what felt like an ages-long hunger that needed to be sated. But, for some damn reason, I did not want her to know what I’d done. I felt it was something I’d never be able to tell her until we were perhaps dead, floating spirits in the ether, free of the confines that made us imperfect and finally equal in all respects.
Patiently observing.
I knew a friend who worked as a prostitute. She appeared often and may’ve lived in a nearby apartment, or perhaps as a roommate. She was always around when I got in from work. She had short black hair that always as if she’d just fucked someone. Messy. Her indifferent eyes were sunk into the mascara and kohl-rimmed shadows and were her most attractive feature.
There was another girl there with whom I was amiable. She was definitely a roommate.
For several days I would get home and become immediately aroused for no reason other than I am capable of it. The first girl would emerge from a room somewhere and stroll by casually, cigarette in between chapped lips, and we would talk for several minutes. I immediately knew that I trusted her enough to talk to her honestly, openly, though I do not know what we discussed. Sometimes, the definite roommate of mine, a redhead, would emerge and sit on the couch to read a book, at which point the first girl would say goodbye and finish her smoke in the hall.
This kept on for many days until one day when I was sitting on the balcony. I had a brown liquor in hand and watched the sunset while nursing a raging erection. I stood and entered the apartment to look for the dark-haired girl, who surely enough appeared from somewhere unseen with a cigarette in hand and disheveled hair. She strode to the kitchen counter and waited for the microwave to ding. I produced a hundred dollar bill from my pocket and approached her. I asked, “What’ll this buy me?” feeling no moral qualm, nor sense of being cheap and tactless. She hesitated for a moment but instantly understood my meaning. She took the hundred and said, “Anything you want. Fuck me any way you want.” Her face was done up in a coy smirk. She took the hundred and went to wait for me in the giant bed that sat just a few feet away in the living room. The redhead roommate appeared to sit on the couch and although I was chomping at the bit to get started, I could not do so with her sitting idly by reading a book. I approached her and and explained: “Listen, can you see her over there? I am about to make her sing my name out. You can hang out, or…” She expressed what can only be called a disgusted whatever and gathered her book. I saw a flash of her parting her legs to reveal a golden bush, but it was only a dream within. “Actually,” I said, “that would be amazing. Why don’t you join us?” And then she was gone.
I returned to my other friend (who was impatiently waiting in bed) and proceeded to hold her wrists while I fucked her from behind, feeling that there was no other human state in which I’d rather be, all animal and fluids, making her sing my name out to a pitch black void.
At the end, a friend whose opinion mattered to me appeared at the station where I waited for my train each morning. She told me she’d been waiting for me in the innocent way of not knowing something deeply personal, smiled wide, and waved at the other two girls I’d just been with. The dark-haired prostitute and the redheaded roommate sat on opposite benches and appeared as they had in the apartment—engaged in cigarette and book, respectively. The train station friend asked me what I’d been up to. She was also someone I trusted. I felt no different than before I’d been with the dark-haired friend, and in fact was glad to have relieved what felt like an ages-long hunger that needed to be sated. But, for some damn reason, I did not want her to know what I’d done. I felt it was something I’d never be able to tell her until we were perhaps dead, floating spirits in the ether, free of the confines that made us imperfect and finally equal in all respects.
cat
She sat perched on the top of the refrigerator like a cat, except of course she wasn’t a cat, she was a person, so it was a kind of awkward perch the way humans can, with our thighs spread and arms extended down between them. Her hair was long enough to cascade down over her breasts as is typical in the classical form. She wore a black lace collar with no name tag. She stared down at me from way up there. I don’t know. I stood at the counter and cut four thick slices of bread from this goddamn beautiful golden loaf. I mean, it smelled like bread I smelled as a kid. Then I took the bread knife and turned it around to slice off two thick slabs of muenster. There wasn’t much else around the counter except some roasted turkey from the deli, brown mustard, mayo, tomatoes, and lettuce. I applied scraps of turkey to the slices of bread and spread the mustard to fill in the spaces. I spread mayo over the other one. One slice of tomato and one leaf of lettuce per what now appeared to be two sandwiches. When they were complete, I placed each on its own plate and took them to the television room. The Star Trek with Data as captain was already playing. I placed the mayo sandwich at one end of the couch and I sat down at the other end and took one large bite. She crept into the room as I chewed—on two legs—and I watched her sit at the other end of the couch, beside the plate. She resumed her perch and stared blankly in my direction. I had the sense that she was gauging me, watching every movement to both understand and make a decision about whether she would stay or leave. I turned away and continued to watch Star Trek. Eventually, she sat like a person and began to eat her sandwich. I could hear her bite into it as if she was inside my head. We sat and stared at the television for a while, or at least until the show was over and our sandwiches were fully ingested. I put down my plate and removed my clothing as she once again stared at me after she’d moved across the room and perched again, attempting some form of comprehension. Now naked, I lay on the couch with my back against the cushions. I stretched myself long, owning from one end of the couch to the other. I said, “Come here.” She stood on her two legs and walked to me. I did not look up but simply closed my eyes. When enough time had passed, she lay herself across like I had—all legs and hair—and curled up in the fetal position. I placed my arm around her and matched her shape as best I could. Then we fell asleep.
cat
She sat perched on the top of the refrigerator like a cat, except of course she wasn’t a cat, she was a person, so it was a kind of awkward perch the way humans can, with our thighs spread and arms extended down between them. Her hair was long enough to cascade down over her breasts as is typical in the classical form. She wore a black lace collar with no name tag. She stared down at me from way up there. I don’t know. I stood at the counter and cut four thick slices of bread from this goddamn beautiful golden loaf. I mean, it smelled like bread I smelled as a kid. Then I took the bread knife and turned it around to slice off two thick slabs of muenster. There wasn’t much else around the counter except some roasted turkey from the deli, brown mustard, mayo, tomatoes, and lettuce. I applied scraps of turkey to the slices of bread and spread the mustard to fill in the spaces. I spread mayo over the other one. One slice of tomato and one leaf of lettuce per what now appeared to be two sandwiches. When they were complete, I placed each on its own plate and took them to the television room. The Star Trek with Data as captain was already playing. I placed the mayo sandwich at one end of the couch and I sat down at the other end and took one large bite. She crept into the room as I chewed—on two legs—and I watched her sit at the other end of the couch, beside the plate. She resumed her perch and stared blankly in my direction. I had the sense that she was gauging me, watching every movement to both understand and make a decision about whether she would stay or leave. I turned away and continued to watch Star Trek. Eventually, she sat like a person and began to eat her sandwich. I could hear her bite into it as if she was inside my head. We sat and stared at the television for a while, or at least until the show was over and our sandwiches were fully ingested. I put down my plate and removed my clothing as she once again stared at me after she’d moved across the room and perched again, attempting some form of comprehension. Now naked, I lay on the couch with my back against the cushions. I stretched myself long, owning from one end of the couch to the other. I said, “Come here.” She stood on her two legs and walked to me. I did not look up but simply closed my eyes. When enough time had passed, she lay herself across like I had—all legs and hair—and curled up in the fetal position. I placed my arm around her and matched her shape as best I could. Then we fell asleep.