Aug 21, 2009 20:26
i have covered myself in city filth. i have forced its wet smell under my nails, just to dig a hole for you. a place to rest in the warm crumbly muffin dirt, so far down that the streets sound like distant rain, so far into the dark that you can smell ocean water. i will not let you live but there is no reason to suffer.
(a very wealthy-looking forty-something woman stands from her first-class seat, grips her carry-on like a rein, frowns severely. she picks up the staticky airplane pillow, fluffs it, straightens the paper case, and sets it back on the seat at an attractive angle. looks away, still frowning)