Water in the Desert & The Sea
“Did you know?” His lips moved just above the rim of his glass. I watched him carefully- I couldn’t help but watch even though sometimes I wanted to look away. “Did you know that it is lonelier in your cities with all of your…” he began gesturing with his right hand, the whiskey sloshing slightly, left and right, in the glass, “your, your… lights and all of your… pomp and circumstance? Did you know it?”
