I've slept in this room more than anywhere else in the world. Of twenty-seven years, I'd guess maybe six years of accumulated sleep has occurred outside these walls. I don't know what I do when I sleep or how the space I sleep in affects me, but I can't help believing that means something.
I haven't stayed the night back home for a while. There was a pattern emerging, or, I saw what I wanted to see to find a pattern. Lying in this bed, in this room I've slept and dreamed and breathed most of my life in, I'd fall down a hole. No matter what my state of mind, no matter what the events of the day, closing the door and turning the light out guaranteed me a tearstorm and no sleep.
Half believe in the idea of the memory that space keeps of us.
I don't believe this room holds good memories of me.
I'm turning the light out now.
And the rooms all smell like diesel
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Dreams of the ones who've slept here.
Good luck.
Well, I dunno about diesel...I like to think I wash regularly and don't smell. And I don't hang around diesel.
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