Another Roadside Attraction for Asshole.
Saturday, June 28th, 2008We re in the car together driving north. The road moves under us like a ribbon like we are winding along some impossible Escher reality twisting and turning on it and somehow we can travel all the sides of it and still find our way back to the side we started on. I feel as though we ve entered our own space and we shuttle forth in it embraced in the upholstered steel womb of the car. There′s a world beyond the windows I know but it seems like some movie a private illusion personally crafted for us.
Richard s left hand grips the wheel absent-mindedly. As he holds it the leather cover leaves his hand smelling raw and earthy. Warm but a real warmth unlike the manufactured heat blowing across our legs. His right hand rests on my thigh his index finger casually stroking it while the rest of his hand stays motionless. I look down and think that his finger looks like a centipede there inching up and down in that one spot.
We hurtle along the road. The dashboard says we are travelling at nearly 70 mph but the number seems meaningless to me. The only motion of any interest is that of his finger on my thigh and the hand to which (more…)


















