How Should a Person Be?

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direction this time; so you thought you had closed up all the stops, but you missed this one. You missed it, and the serpent slithered in. It is death coming, masquerading as life, and blessed is the man who can see the death drive in the woman. Blessed is he who leaves in the morning without any promise of love. And blessed is the woman who can answer for herself, What about living ? What is it about living that you want?
    In the mornings, he would get up from the bed and leave. I never saw any sentiment in his eyes. He would roll up the sleeves of his shirt so slowly. Watching him dress, the careful way he did it, and how his underwear came up over the lip of his jeans, I knew he could never be mine. That casual way of dressing before a woman, slowly and deliberately, with so much attention paid to every little gesture of grooming—­though he told me that a man must never dress any better than the woman he is with.
    Israel, if you ever want a child, I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to sit around the table and discuss the whens and ifs of it, or how it should be done. Just hold me there with your hands and don’t take your cock out when you cum. Do it as often as you want till it takes. I’ll leave it for you to say. I won’t ask for babies or tell you I’m not ready. Shoot it in me when you think the time is due. You know my legs are always open for what­ever you want from me. I won’t make a fuss or complain—­but no conversations, please, no pleading, no wondering about it all. Impregnate me like I’m an animal that can take it ’ cause I am. When the time is ready, just shoot me up. One night you might find yourself wanting it, after the cigarette is put out. It might occur to you in half your mind, sideways, wanting to try it out and see. Then try it out on me, fill me up with your load. I won’t protest.
    I am indifferent to what­ever you do to me, as long as it feels as good as it did those three times. I am indifferent to whether you turn me into a sow you lead around the ­house with a leash, or if you lash me nightly, or if you throw my body into the bed or out of it. If you want my cunt to take your cum, or to turn me into an animal who can take it, I’ll learn astrology. I’ll be the stupidest whore you ever met; forget everything to kiss the head of the little nothing you give me, if you want it. And if you don’t want it, it’s your cock’s head I’ll kiss when you shove it up against my lips. I don’t mind. You sleep and I’ll tirelessly not sleep if that’s the way your cock decides it should be. What­ever your cock decides.
    You told me after he told you that he had made out with me, you said to Alexei, You should try fucking her . Lend me to Alexei then, to whichever one of your friends. I will fuck them like I’m fucking you, and think of you all the while—­your body, and the greatness of you, that makes me do such things—­and I will lick it up, what­ever trails you leave and wherever you leave them. You call me. I’ll be there with my ­whole mop of hair to clean it up.
    Now all the windows in the kitchen are shining with the light from outside—­where you are, Israel—­while I am inside, on the phone, so you can see me with three guys to­night while you smoke on the chair you put into the corner of the room, only to leave it to lean down and look at what is going on between my legs. Blow your smoke up my cunt so I can taste it with my dizzy little puss—­dizzy for you. What­ever you want me to do, I will do it, and what­ever I don’t want to do, I will do that too, and will want to.
    Today the light came through the windows so beautifully that I didn’t know if it was moonlight or sunlight I was seeing. I just stood there washing the dishes and breaking them on my wrists and hands like the long-­suffering wife of a great

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