I think hate Las Vegas. I don’t like to adhere myself to such bold statements because they tend to come back. But I do think I hate it.
But I suppose a bed is a bed though.
My books keep me company, though they aren't much for conversations. Neither am I.
And no one seems to be able to find me here.
That or no one is looking and I’ve become one of those lonely people, a la Eleanore Rigby or Holly Golightly.
Though not Audrey Hepburn of course. I mean the one in the novella, the one who lets the cat run off into the rain. There is no rising music or kiss in the downpour. There is a cab and it drives off.
This is of my own making.
I feel as though I’m in high school. With clearer skin-but listening to the same records on repeat and smoking pot while sitting on the floor. I suppose a floor is a floor as a bed is a bed despite time or location, and maybe even company.
Though surely not even I am that cynical now.
How much do we even change?
How much is natural, a progression, an evolution?
How much is in our control?
Can you stop a change, even if it feels inevitable?
Or is a hotel room with locked doors enough to keep it out?
Is a bed a bed?
I wander out to the balcony after the second joint and I watch the lights. Like nerves inside a brain, they flicker and move. Firing like thoughts and somehow I am a part of it. The collective.
And then they all fade. One by one they go out.
And then it’s morning. And then they are buildings again, and I am just in my hotel room.
Just Eleanore Rigby with no cat in a cab to Brazil.
music: Eleanore Rigby-The Beatles |