Eddie Works Two Jobs
At night he bartends. He comes home at 2.30am and lies next to Polly who wakes up just enough to move her weight over so that they are touching and then goes back to sleep. Eddie wonders whether she does this consciously or unconsciously, and whether it really matters since if she’s doing it unconsciously then that means that there is some deep part of herself that truly loves and needs him, maybe a part of herself that has shied away so deeply inside her brain that it needs her to lie very still and very quiet for a long time, that needs her to just take a breath, and not be such a goddamn bitch, that needs her to shut her mouth for just one fucking second for it to come out and be heard.
In the morning, at 7.30am, Eddie has to wake up again and he goes and stands in a cold shower with the blood pumping round his head and he goes and answers the phone in a place, and when he answers the phone he has to say “I’m really happy to be taking this call from you today.”
