Emotionally Labile

In these wild, cluttered days, working, it sometimes seems, without respect, money or resources, hounding the days and dodging the bullets of immature little bullies promoted beyond their competence, of working, as the Savage Gods have decreed, through long days and even longer nights, for the modern organ called a newspaper, with almost no news pages and no news journalists, magazines with a stenographic, regurgitated front, an accepted view of the world. I sat, yesterday, amongst the business suits on the flight to Melbourne, not a friendly murmur amongst them, blokes caged in suits and lack of personality; sat next to some business man who couldn't even be bothered to say hello. And wondered, not for the first time, what the fuck am I doing?

The story continues:

"In the end monogamy was a deep belief. He didn't have to pout up with the humiliation of living with someone with a constantly wandering eye, the insecuirty of endless triangular relationships. His ability to love her without worrying about who was round the corner was part of his growing confidence.

"He no longer had to go to parties with his partner, and wonder if they would be leaving together, publicly shamed once more. The introductions. This is my boyfriend, though whether he desires me as much as you, whether he will be sleeping with me tonight, is a moot point. He had had a gutful of so-called open relationships.

"Days rolled into months. He didn't want to be trapped by the past, chained by definition. He didn't see any reason to mention another life. Whenever he and Anna talked of the past he was very vague. Ommission didn't seem dishonest."

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