"You crazy piece of shit, I told you I'm just not ready for anything."
My mouth wanting for the teeth, wanting to leap silently in the air, come down on him like a vampire.
Instead, I came up slowly to him. Filled the distance between him with the quick flicker of my tongue, his lips came easily. He did not back away. In all this darkness, in all this cold, even despite his last words, he felt warm. We felt warm. My hand under his shirt and headed down below. A finger went in between and in. I could feel him pulsing.
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All the fucking him in the bathroom in the clubs meant nothing. All the dollars I spent in his underwear while he danced meant nothing. None of the trips to barbados or monte carlo meant nothing. All of medical bills paid to look into his depression, all the bills paid to get him to see that he's worth something meant nothing. All the flowers at the doorstep of his crappy apartment meant nothing. All the visits hand and hand to see his uncle who raised him, a man who refused to go to a hospital and who raised his disowned niece and nephew without any medical treatment- who nearly cost them their lives because of it- and I who paid for this uncles eventual acceptance to hospital and who took his own life by pulling the plug unknowingly to any of us... meant nothing.
He was not ready. And it's interesting how someone had somehow made up their mind way before ever really letting you know.
And all the fucking him on the ocean at sunset, and the fucking him with all the men he had ever wanted, and it all meant nothing...
The heart sutra discusses that nothingness is nirvana. That could not be closer to the truth, because in the nothingness I feel right now, I want nothing and feel nothing and suffer from nothing.
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I called him up one day, perhaps even a year later. He didn't pick up. I got his voicemail. So I emailed him. I said:
You are a cold-hearted piece of shit. Go fuck yourself, you fucking asshole.