We Were in Our 20s and We Didn’t Have a Clue
- 7 years ago
We Were in Our 20s and We Didn’t Have a Clue
I remember walking backward, again, very slowly, doing a little backward shimmy, down the same
hotel corridor as she stood at her door like an actress, wagging at me with her index finger.
“If you guys don’t line up, there will be no snack, period.” At night, in Allston, I considered the nature
of self-pity, how it’s not unlike masturbation in the sense of how satisfying it can be in the short term.
She must have felt my presence because she opened the door and saw me and laughed and got down on her hands and knees and crawled my way.
And the long term is just a linked chain of short term after short term
I remember walking backward, again, very slowly, doing a little backward shimmy, down the same
hotel corridor as she stood at her door like an actress, wagging at me with her index finger.
“If you guys don’t line up, there will be no snack, period.” At night, in Allston, I considered the nature
of self-pity, how it’s not unlike masturbation in the sense of how satisfying it can be in the short term.
She must have felt my presence because she opened the door and saw me and laughed and got down on her hands and knees and crawled my way.
And the long term is just a linked chain of short term after short term