Motel Musings 

When people call you a star, what they really mean is you are the center of someone else’s  universe, but they already have a sun. No vacancies. My mother wanted a son but  she got a star instead. Sometimes you have to say something once  to realize you never want to say it again. The first time I said I love you  it felt like biting into a watermelon rind and feeling the waxy green between my teeth. I do not want to prompt expectations; I have already been crushed by them. 000  0000Sometimes if you have to break your back to bend, then you are  supposed to stand. $63 a night is the best deal in the area, which means the AC is broken  and the sheets are stained, but it’s cheap and it’s close to the city, so. No vacancies until the match meets the flesh.  000 ‍ ‍0000The sun warms but a star burns. And everything burns.