Curls

curls

"this is a new look for you." chim clocks his curls on monday morning when he shows up to work. "did our prettyboy wake up late?"

buck smiles, sheepish. he'd taken a late shower saturday night and had woken up, hair all frizzy and curled, tommy's fingers running through them gentle, blunt nails lightly scratching his scalp. i like them, tommy had said. his morning voice was a low, chest-deep rumble, like the sound of coffee percolating. it's my favorite view to wake up to.

"nah," buck says. he almost put some pomade in his hair this morning, but tommy would have made a face at the tackiness between his fingers, would have messed it up anyway giving him a kiss out the door. grinned at the odd, slicked down angles of him drawn askew while buck fussed too much in the mirror again and made himself late. tommy liked him as-is. "just trying something different."

Why can't we ever use bullshit bioessentialism for fun things

i am SCREAMING

stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) it was on the driveway got out of the car and accidentally (didn't know it was there) stepped on the plum (warm) (on the ground) (it had fallen from the tree) barefoot (no shoes) wearing long pants (too long) (need to hem them) plum viscera got on them (the pants) unexpected plum on the driveway (hot plum) (97 degrees out) already super hungover (throwing up all morning) (should not have been driving at all) and I stepped out of the car (black car) (97 degrees out) and onto the plum (unexpected) (didn't know the plum was there) and it burst (plum nightmare on my only good pair of sweatpants) still we find ways to keep ourselves going from day to day

I talked to a young man with white hair on a boat cabin in the middle of a stormy sea. He forgot everything about himself exept for the fact that his name rhymed with ‘Time’ so he started calling himself Time.

I offered him an orange in exchange for a meaningful chat. He took the slice and told me “Nothing’s set in stone, but they’re set in a dirt road. If you roll your wagon in the same path too much it’ll soon be the only path you can take without struggling.”