never get that anymore
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foxtongueA few years of violence and now I flinch in my sleep when the maid comes to collect towels in the hall. Waking comes slowly, but comfortably. In spite of the lingering memories of being six, hotels almost always feel like home. An acoustic Life on Mars is blending seamlessly in my head with the police car siren dopplering past as I open my eyes and look at the alarm clock with serious doubt. It's begun blaring terrible R&B hip-hop rip-offs of uninspired 90's music. Terrible. Unforgivable. It's nine o'clock. I slide out of the blood messy sheets and get up to turn it off, knocking a pack of cigarettes off the bed. It's a good place to be, I think, picking it up and putting it back. I understand how to fit here.
My clothes are over the back of a little chair, except for my bra, which has somehow found it's way into a plastic milk crate of three-quarters full of funk records. I look in the mirror as I pull my shirt over my head and ridiculous hair. It's lined with photographs of Kyle with his baby son. They look happy together, the smiles almost match. It's obvious that his child is paramount. He wears dog-tags around his neck with both their names engraved. I like them, how they chime musically when he moves. I like almost all of him, how he laughs easily and sincerely, the way our hands wind affectionately together when we're talking. His body feels like candles. That warm glow particular to wick'd fire, as if I can taste a pool of light on his tongue. His body is that way too, though not his movement. There's a smooth weight to it reminiscent of heavy bronze sculpting wax. I like how he purrs and teases me for my taxidermy, makes silly jokes about carrying around giant skinned mink to terrorize the front desk clerks with. It's refreshingly supportive. Exactly the kind of pleasing mockery I require. It makes me bury my head in his neck with unfeigned delight.
The night before, we're lying in bed and he asks me if I've seen his tattoo. I sit up a little, "Where is it?" I've never seen it. "It's a little scorpion, really intricate. I did it when I was in jail." I start to ask why he was in jail, but he brings his left hand close to my face and I see a small dot of ink and start laughing. "See? It's really detailed." "Incredibly."
His smile tells me he's almost kidding as he explains that he was in for aiding and abetting a felon. Seems years ago some cops had shown up at a party and started rounding kids up in a rather typical Vancouver fashion. Kyle sneaked around them and pulled an arrested friend out of a cop car. They ran, banging open gates, running across yards, but eventually they hit a locked gate in a chain link fence that his friend couldn't climb with the cuffs on. Kyle was caught two blocks later. They were held an extra half day because the cops thought they were jerks - they were put in separate cells, but as they could hear each other, they stayed up all night drumming on the black metal bed-frames loudly singing DAY-O, DA-AY-O, DAYLIGHT COME AN' I WANNA GO HOME.
My clothes are over the back of a little chair, except for my bra, which has somehow found it's way into a plastic milk crate of three-quarters full of funk records. I look in the mirror as I pull my shirt over my head and ridiculous hair. It's lined with photographs of Kyle with his baby son. They look happy together, the smiles almost match. It's obvious that his child is paramount. He wears dog-tags around his neck with both their names engraved. I like them, how they chime musically when he moves. I like almost all of him, how he laughs easily and sincerely, the way our hands wind affectionately together when we're talking. His body feels like candles. That warm glow particular to wick'd fire, as if I can taste a pool of light on his tongue. His body is that way too, though not his movement. There's a smooth weight to it reminiscent of heavy bronze sculpting wax. I like how he purrs and teases me for my taxidermy, makes silly jokes about carrying around giant skinned mink to terrorize the front desk clerks with. It's refreshingly supportive. Exactly the kind of pleasing mockery I require. It makes me bury my head in his neck with unfeigned delight.
The night before, we're lying in bed and he asks me if I've seen his tattoo. I sit up a little, "Where is it?" I've never seen it. "It's a little scorpion, really intricate. I did it when I was in jail." I start to ask why he was in jail, but he brings his left hand close to my face and I see a small dot of ink and start laughing. "See? It's really detailed." "Incredibly."
His smile tells me he's almost kidding as he explains that he was in for aiding and abetting a felon. Seems years ago some cops had shown up at a party and started rounding kids up in a rather typical Vancouver fashion. Kyle sneaked around them and pulled an arrested friend out of a cop car. They ran, banging open gates, running across yards, but eventually they hit a locked gate in a chain link fence that his friend couldn't climb with the cuffs on. Kyle was caught two blocks later. They were held an extra half day because the cops thought they were jerks - they were put in separate cells, but as they could hear each other, they stayed up all night drumming on the black metal bed-frames loudly singing DAY-O, DA-AY-O, DAYLIGHT COME AN' I WANNA GO HOME.
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"hotels almost always feel like home..."
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Date: 2006-02-10 06:06 am (UTC)THis place, however, he lives in. There's no annoying mini-use shampoo.
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