There was a woman singing in Greek and I began to wonder if
this was the end of my life. I could not recall a time when I did not
want to die. I need to make it a double feature tonight. It’s worth
a try, right? It’s worth a goddamn try as Myer would say. My stay
at the hotel was unceremoniously interrupted last night, my fault really for
being so deplorable. Johns was talking to me about the brand of Peach
nectar he was trying out early in the mornings but I wasn’t paying him much attention.
It was either the previous night or night before that in which I’d become
inebriated down at Vanessa’s Spittoon and briefly befriended a man telling me
all manner of things about the Congene virus and the covert distribution which
occurred in inner cities during the 1970’s and 1980’s strange men who wore
green suits and carried outdated newspapers. Even then during those
precarious moments my attention was dominated by several vedettes.
Rich’s Gasoline sells the best Steno notepads and detailed instructions
were written by the steadiest of hands long ago. Thoughts of suicide
don’t frighten me, of course. I wonder if I should have gone to the
electrical company, maybe then someone would have reached out a scaly hand and
offered me a chance to purchase real prime real estate. Maybe I should
have taken Richards up on that offer when I was being given the grand tour of
storage space and allowed all access to the great and grate annals of waste and
regret. Where has all the pulchritude gone?
I wrote that word on a card once and then it
disappeared. Have you seen this insect? I wrote that on a flyer and
stapled them all over lampposts and people came running from nine different
major metropolitan areas, all rambling about their grandchildren and sports
blazers and I could only roll my eyes and say “just you wait until I glue
uncooked macaroni onto some particle board and use that to surf around the
collective and ever distilling lake of reproductive fluids our great
forefathers and foremothers left behind when they bought the proverbial barn
house.” Jenni the Vedette gave a public discourse on the advantages of
compound interest and low risk mutual funds while Lorena the Vedette was
preparing some delicious homemade guacamole in the corner and I must
embarrassingly confess I was staring at her rich and ample derriere the entire
time and wishing she would take a load off on my humble and happy face.
Suddenly and without warning there was a flashback to a
previous dreadful morning where Fredericks was imparting to me the necessity of
completing all the forms by noon the following day and there was a moment of
pure panic when I realized I hadn’t yet completed a one. Just make sure
all the lines are straight and the numbers add up, he said. There was furious
reverse facesitting going on and the vedettes were laughing and berating me all
the while. Eventually my face was their collective footrest and the
potent perfume of pantyhose and sweat brought about by countless hours of well
choreographed dancing provoked an erection so fierce and stone-hard I would
later use it as a bat in the annual office softball game when we played against
our old rivals the Inner City Tornadoes (after the game we all gathered around
for cheeseburgers and beer, the amusing house wine). You can make lots of
money if you stick with me, kid. The sad truth is that I hadn’t been a
kid in many years. My God, there were thousands of centipedes right there
in the corner and they disgusted and terrified me and I knew Fredericks was
receiving oral sex from the new intern Holloway right there in the next room so
soon after he reprimanded me. At least he was cordial enough to provide
me with a tall frosty glass of whole milk to consume while I worked. I
counted no less than 17 jets pass by my office during the first hour, leaving
their chemtrails behind.
somewhere, I knew that a queen was searching for her
sun. I missed Adamari’s legs this morning and the realization of this set
public education back at least a further 17 years. I began to wonder if I
was still destined to have nine children named Richard Karn as it was once
predicted. 5 hours later I was eating mangos and drinking black coffee
and couldn’t remember why I was so convinced…. Is there anything more awful
than being a parent? These scallywags are coming for yours falsely.
I only wish for The Jackal’s interference. I realized after talking to
him that he is he is an uncaring thing and everything s/he, he, she, we, he,
it’s all related and everything is you.
Tell it to a Cubs fan, Johns said to me and I knew he was
right. The man has his own submarine after all! Hell, I’m no
mastermind. If only Ingrid had been by my side I may have been able to
properly recover the stolen plutonium. Come to think of it, why didn’t I
just construct the door of my posh flat out of plutonium?
“I was wearing this pair of Secrets in Lace 7 denier fishnet
pantyhose yesterday while learning 9 different yet equally complicated dancing
routines,” Jennie the Vedette explained to me, her honeyed words accented by
the Mexican sun. At one point the pantyhose were in my mouth and one
point the homemade guac was in my mouth and at one point they both were and the
vedettes were prophesying and this was when sperm bullets shot off with remarkable
power, range and above average accuracy, leaving behind a majestic rainbow with
the world’s tiniest pot of gold residing at its lowest point.
Yes, I went to a movie by myself and there was no one else in
the cinema and it felt so good and when it was over red hot tears were running
down my face and I wanted nothing more than to blow my brains out but
dag-nab-it I’d forgotten me pistol! I suppose I think about taking my own
life an awful lot. I’m thinking about it now and still crying while I drink
white wine. Am I turning into a werewolf? Why do I feel so awful
all the time? It was then, while eating a large stack of blueberry
pancakes lathered in gold plated maple syrup with a side of nuclear fission
that I realized we are all repulsive shapeless blobs of skin and hair and
fluids desperately looking to strike up the rank and unflattering connection
that we may scream and gurn and discharge. Oh we are so repulsive I think
as I beg her to laugh at me and stuff her red neck tie in my mouth.