20 December 2011
Next Morning On the phone to her- The all of it.
reduced to words- How lovely the way we redefined wrong.
Yes, she agreed, then slowly in a hush, it went beyond pleasure, beyond fun.
They laughed without gaiety. I feel numb, he said,
and hung up to begin what he'd later describe as a long slide into himself.
Conversation with others seemed like chatter. Work felt like work.
He'd call her up and say things like Holy Shit, which she understood to be accurate
-Stephen Dunn
After Ecstasy • Opuss № I