listen and you can hear
an unhealthy mish-mash of coke
and laughs
coming from the level 6 corridor
next to the vending machine
fear
bad ass teenagers thinking they are street
in 6b there is a queen
he likes fur and has a special fetish for feet
and despite his looks
the guy's completely clean
a dreaming student in 7e just trying to get work done
lives alone in the apartment
that in the morning gets all the sun
both the queen and the B+ college kid
have to listen to the familiar grunts
of the dude in 7b
who works out before and after lunch
a bowflex
an 800 number just begging to be the next
life changing event
blood sweat and tears
are nothing compared to rex
that's rexall flemming
and he's living because he must
has 13 sick family members
so he works in a daily shower of putrid water
and aerosol concrete dust
11h is his retreat
somewhere he can run when the outside world is just too tough
rex belives nobody is really weak
which gives 11e a run for her money
she's happily in love
with 5 men
and 14 different kinds of drugs
11f D.A.R.E.s her to pull the plug
especially when he can hear her fucking through the vent
loud enough that his own thoughts are impossible to comprehend
and the story he is writing is never really enough
so it never really has an end