Blah-blah-blah. Shut up!

"I took this one guy down this alley and he wouldn't put on a rubber, you know? He says he don't have to. Tells me he's a priest. And I'm like, 'Baba, I don't care if you da pope, you wear a rubber when I suck your dick.' You know?" (She pronounced it "chew-no.") "Would not do it. So I split, took his $20, said, 'Go do 20 Hail Marys and 10 Our Fathers and I'll see you next payday, Daddy.'"

I can't think. Her voice is floating through my front door like used tissue paper. Pounding into my skull. Filling it up. Filling my head up with her slut babble. So I go up to the door. There's a crack that runs down the side, where the door doesn't quite fit into the molding. I shut out the lights on my side and I peek through this crack. At first I don't see her, she's so close. Wham. There she is, lighting a cigarette, her face only inches from mine, standing on my storefront doorstep on the other side of the door. She's talking to her girlfriend. Two loud hookers. Of course, know-it-all that she is, she has no idea I'm in here. Red lipstick, olive skin, smoking a Parliament. A clueless whore. And then I thought, why not? I'm inches from her face, why not? And I did it. Jerked it right there, looking right in her eyes. She never knew. Now that's intimacy.

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