{"id":3462,"date":"2024-07-22T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lea-lee.love\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:35:35","slug":"it-might-be-winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elaine.baby\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"It might be winding down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There&#8217;s a reason I haven&#8217;t been writing. Things have been going full bore since Friday afternoon, as bad as January. I can&#8217;t think in complete sentences right now. No matter how hard I focus, I can&#8217;t string more than three together before it breaks off into a half-minute of gibberish that fades to silence. There have been a number of arrests and one woman had her child returned to his father. I&#8217;m seeing faces I haven&#8217;t seen in five or ten years. It has to be winding down. <\/p><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It turns out that what precipitated it was that, while I was being stoic and quiet about Elaine, I was listening to music that captured my mood, picking songs one at a time, angry music from my youth. This sounds too stupid to possibly be true, but what I was told on Saturday night was that my OCD (complete scum) neighbor thought I was picking songs too well and that this meant I think I&#8217;m special. (I am.) So four days of outlandish cruelty ensued. I think they were angry that the local culture of permissiveness towards torturing me for pettiness or entertainment is threatened. If it sounds as though I&#8217;m casting things in a selective light, I understand. But I don&#8217;t think I am.<\/p><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There are still people coming by the door tonight. We&#8217;ll see how tomorrow goes. The pillow on the next cushion is squirming around out of the  corner of my eye. But I&#8217;ve held my cool well. Familiar faces stop by to smile at me. Even Elaine laughed at one of my jokes. Funny. One of those rock bottom moments and I feel like I have a little family here. <\/p><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This feels more like a blog entry than a note to you, Mistress Lea. I just wanted to explain my absence. I need somebody so bad right now. This empty ache is killing me. I feel a panic and sense I should stop and I realize it&#8217;s because I cannot pleasure you. I think the things about you that I know to be true and I begin to melt, falling asleep as I do. <\/p><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My brain won&#8217;t be firing right until next Monday, likely. I have two different, steady hallucinations coming from in front of me and the back wall. The first sounds like the world&#8217;s most insipid documentary, about a memorabilia collection involving items from some arbitrary person&#8217;s life and, not an explanation of the items, the story behind it, but an overarching narrative explaining why these items were representative of that part of the individual&#8217;s life and the clustering of them. I&#8217;m trying not to listen. Christ, now they&#8217;ve moved onto his browser history.<\/p><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I&#8217;m overloaded tonight. I need too much. I just want to sit in the dark and talk on the phone. I love you. I&#8217;ll be back in a day or two.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t think in complete sentences right now. 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