Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin) / 2008-06-15 00:00:00
EBOOK, CORPUS OF A SIAM MOSQUITO ***
Copyright (C) 2002 by Steven Sills.
Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
--Steven Sills
"So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased
that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She
put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart
the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away
from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure
of human blood."
--The Iliad
Homer
Book I: Palaver
Chapter 1
They, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in
the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their
aloneness. It was an early Bangkok morning with a new day tripping over
the corpse of the earlier one the way dogs on the Bangkok sidewalks
were walked on. It was early in the relationship of the two passengers
and this nascent association contained the complex and awkward
ambiguity of not being clearly professional or personal and he and his
prostitute-model were tripping into each other.
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