"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. - W. B. Yeats

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Edinburgh: Whiskey

I run out of everything- money, clothing, drugs, friends, love. I've got a heart of hot rock-- from the mouth of a volcano, and legs just shaved in a cruddy bathroom.

Brushing lips with another unremarkable man-- because a night with a boring stranger is better than a night alone.

Whiskey doesn't burn like the first time I tried it-- in a New York flat, with a bible for a coaster, and hothouse hair. I was feeling sweat cool against my temples and papers scattered, damp with boozy gold rings.

Whiskey over ice-- smooth and cold and hot all at once.

And my stranger was a cute drunk--
But I didn't ask his number,
and he didn't get mine.

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