Elle Decor November 2012
11.27.12 8 min in bed on the Lower East Side, NYC
The goddamn shower upstairs is going again.
Bill hasn’t seen the neighbors yet but he hates their grooming habits. The hot water pipes sing in an ear-bleeding pitch and they take two long showers a day! The first at 6:30 am, and another one anytime after 11pm. How dirty does a body get in seven and a half hours? Shari says they might be sexual deviants who pee on each other’s whip cream smeared bodies.
Shari is obsessed with food and sex ever since their trip to Morocco and Tunisia. She buys pomegranates and other exotic fruits and eats them naked at the table. She says no one can see in through the tiny window but he insists on turning the lights off. Mostly he resists, but when he succumbs he takes a shower afterwards. She likes talking dirty about the British couple they partied with at the end of the trip. The showers don’t wash away the memory but they help clear his head.
10.v thankful for…
-being invited to a roast chicken dinner but the host having made a fish dish on the chance I don’t eat chicken, which I don’t
-getting a drive home when it’s pouring rain
-getting a couple hundred dollars for a box of old LPs
-being inside when the rain became wet snow
-a big joke after a flare of temper at the family dinner
-fresh vegetables washed in clean water
-a quiet, clutterless room to go to sleep in
-central heat
-paperclips
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