The Human Heart is an Asshole
August 07, 2019 02.42 a.m. I sit in the balcony of my seventh-floor flat, smoking a double switch Marlboro with my friend the Penguin and listening to Cigarettes After Sex's 'Crush'. Yeah, don't get too excited. There's no sex here. I put out the cigarette after smoking half of it. Oh, but I'm not alone. There's about an entire colony of mosquitoes trying to eat me from the legs and I feel like I should probably move inside and try not to look like the picturesque writer smoking in the balcony, writing stupid rants while a stalker in the opposite building watches silently. The sound of crickets (and other gentlemen and ladies performing the concert) reminds me of a very creepy scene from American Horror Story, but at the same time makes me realize how beautiful this world is, and how every day we miss so much of it because we just can't get enough of ourselves. But something's amiss. Something I wish would go away. I can...