late at nightearly in the morningthey colluded
he liked to take hot baths tried to melt like the beeswax candle he lit to soak
under its flickering halo licked by the breeze through the windowscreen
his cats would come in and check
on himalways looking perplexed
Really water Whadahell then saunter off Nothing
to see here
this morning laying there sipping
whisky from a shotglass he set over his left shoulder on the molded fiberglass
ledge his eyes lazilyabsently closing and opening he gazed up into the corner opposite
him where once upon a time a daddylonglegs appleseed he called her kept a web
When was thathe had to think when he first met
her he wasnt well he was stoved up
a specialist a rheumatologist fantasised it was RA rheumatoid arthritis
Yare full of shit
doc Yare cherrypicking didnt listen when I answered the questions ya put to me Eleven of thirteen indicators ya said I agreed with only three
Tryin too hard
the doctor wanted to prescribe a drug but
before he would submit the prescription he informed him hed have to go to the hospital to establish
baselines for his internal organs
Why would I do
that
Because he looked exasperatedlooked at him over his spectacles because the side effects of the drug
affect your organs.
Ah So to alleviate my pain I should fuck my internal organsEver see Andy
Warhols Frankenstein doc To know life
you have to fuck it in the gall bladder
I don think so
he met appleseed prior to consulting
with the physician she was absorbednegative
panic bobbing in the churning water as he ran a bath he was taking threefour hot baths with salts a
day to manage his pain he used a scrubbrush snatched her up out of the water with it asif she was lint just
before the drain
saved
her life
or rather interrupted her suicidehe saved her two more times
she relentedconceded
she finally made a web in the
corner opposite him and remained his steadfast companion for more than ten
months before his pain subsided
laying there looking into the
empty corner he wondered How long ago was that
Five years
hed guess '16
the next day he looked in his
journalfound the exact date
he was righthe
related their happenstance later that morning Friday May 27
one morning mid '18 he entered
the bathroomlooked up into appleseeds corner and found her web vacant
he immediately looked on the sink
under it expecting to find her body
he didnt
she didnt return
he left her web intact on the
offchance she might
they were together nearly two years
this morning in the haloed light appleseeds corner
was lit faintly by a nightlight beneath it which cast alternating coloured light amber blue purple green amber
again
he watched herher shadow in that
lighting for so long
remembering made him smile
he missed her
0020, Monday,
11 10. 21
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