stella was a diver and she was always down

It oozes. Smells kind of funny. The flower is from outer space. I think I can hear it ooze. I try to memorize the rhythm of Ed's breathing, watch him sleep for a while. Then I watch the end of Purple Rain. We ate a bunch of something like ecstasy and only made it to "long haired faggot". Ed misquoted the movie, felt me up. I work on the twelve pack I bought with a bad check. He wakes up, grabs my ass, goes back to sleep. The bed is really high up. I draw a butterfly on the ceiling with my toes. Look at my belly rise and fall. Lint and hair are stuck to the flower. I crawl down the ladder in my underwear. Slowly, carefully. There's a sleeping German across the hall. I rinse slime off space flower in the bathroom sink. It oozes some more. My clothes are piled up by the bed. If it would piss him off I'd get dressed now. Leave him sleeping there. It won't. I drink and drink til there's nothing left, think about the time I met Ed's mom. Pass out with my feet next to his face.