In the mornings, the woman sees her husband off to work in her night dress, sometimes with curlers in her hair. After he leaves, she always lights a cigarette and stands with the glass-paned storm door cracked open. I can tell the inside of their house smells like knock-off Estée Lauder and menthol smoke.
In the anatomy lab, we are peeing into cups to check for any abnormalities within the urine
I was outside of time. Teensy amoebic televisions snowed in my eyes. My throat felt like burnt hair.
My professor is French. You can tell by her voice, and because she just told us that she and her husband met through adultery, as if it was an app on your phone.
Sarah has just been promoted at the publishing house, and I realize she thinks she is doing her job at this party
Smile in heavy make-up, feeling like a pill is stuck in your throat.
/pəˈzeʃ.ən/
One morning I woke up with my right scapula in my mouth. You would think that is physically impossible, but in the case of demonic possessions it is actually more normal than not.
A snag with Monday is I have to neck all three of my Subtext in one go. Each under the tongue. The man who administers, Sven, can’t be arsed to say why but he’s a pure archcretin.
There’s an impulse to reduce the Tommy and Pam love story to easy pop-psychology terms: they had a trauma bond, he had a Madonna/Whore complex after she became a mother.
We drank the acid. I immediately felt fucked.
I imagined finding him hanged beneath the creak of a taut rope as often as I didnt.
If, for instance, Jezebel had to use the men’s room for some reason, I would rather pee on myself.
That’s why we are “in relationship,” to deliberately alienate each other’s unhappiness—to build an incredible shrine to unhappiness that would be seen for miles in a flatland, if such a shrine could be visible.
I spent the next couple hours grooming myself and getting drunk. I was sick all the time back then.
Do you ever get mad
and want to
hit something?
I tolerated Marcus and Haley because I knew their drill. Marcus would pick me up with drugs coursing through his system
Hallucinated a flaming forest as if lucid dreaming around 9 p.m. Shit myself. Barfed orange slushy chunks.
I blast the airhorn before the lump on the floor knows what’s going on.
My wife watched me walk headfirst into a mirror.
Now there is a skeleton outside my window. And skeletons on all the dating app profiles.
The face in my mirror keeps getting older –
Into the face of the man who beat me
I reminded myself that I spent just as many lonely afternoons in the State Library of Victoria with a pile of international Vogues as I did at a Goodwill in the Valley.
I thought maybe I would learn something about how to be less judgemental, or something.
