my gender is a sleazy middle aged man.
booze breath, unkempt hair, loose tie. wheezy laughs, sarcastic quips. pudge pushing against my belt buckle.
another man's stubble grazing my lips. a woman's nails carving love into my back. my bed is a stranger's pit stop.
malt and frevor. cigarettes and loss. smiles and delusion. i have everything to lose and nothing to gain, always. a domineering attitude. default, snappy anger. the world is as much a victim of mine as i am of it. my rage stews and bubbles and bursts. i destroy just as much as i break. my sobs are hoarse adlibs to a bird's morning song. my voice fills dingy bars and flashy clubs: swanky, deliberate. my hips swing loosely to husky blues. an air of mystery clings to the shoulders of my blazer, alluring to-be enemies. i’m loveable only in the moment. my words are traps. my promises, suggestions.
my nights are a disorienting swarm of colors, music and pleasure. my days are series of half-truths. the hangovers in-between feel like everything i deserve. i'm a shit-eating bastard with a smorsgabord of perversions. i'm carved out of flint with the world's dullest hunting knife.
i'm exactly the man i want to be.











