* The cleaner watches Thai pop on television. She should be working. Outside the sky lightens, that persistent rooster crows and the trees are once again filled with the sound of morning birds, lit lumiscently amongst the old homes and the not-so-old guesthouses of Chiang Mai. He was frightened of the past, frightened of the appalling loss, not so convinced of the future, but there were moments, as he trailed his fingers across smooth, friendly, paid for flesh and laughing embraces when the present churned into exultant moments, and all was well. Suzy and Hen are in Pnom Penh. Now the cleaner is on the phone. Obviously the owners are still asleep. They giggle and fill their heads with garbage. No one ever claimed they were the most intellectual; that they valued education. Song Kaw, the water festival, is coming. I was so sick on the plane they didn't even process me properly through immigration; they just wanted rid of me, Suzy said, and he called her a mad cow on the phone and she just laughed brazenly, as she always did at the catastrophe that had become her life. Now he had to enter the Heart Of Darkness. Now he had to return to Cambodia. He didn't want to.
Infinite Pleasures
Infinite Pleasures
Infinite Pleasures
* The cleaner watches Thai pop on television. She should be working. Outside the sky lightens, that persistent rooster crows and the trees are once again filled with the sound of morning birds, lit lumiscently amongst the old homes and the not-so-old guesthouses of Chiang Mai. He was frightened of the past, frightened of the appalling loss, not so convinced of the future, but there were moments, as he trailed his fingers across smooth, friendly, paid for flesh and laughing embraces when the present churned into exultant moments, and all was well. Suzy and Hen are in Pnom Penh. Now the cleaner is on the phone. Obviously the owners are still asleep. They giggle and fill their heads with garbage. No one ever claimed they were the most intellectual; that they valued education. Song Kaw, the water festival, is coming. I was so sick on the plane they didn't even process me properly through immigration; they just wanted rid of me, Suzy said, and he called her a mad cow on the phone and she just laughed brazenly, as she always did at the catastrophe that had become her life. Now he had to enter the Heart Of Darkness. Now he had to return to Cambodia. He didn't want to.