Hux Is Getting Married

Here it is, Santa Monica, I told you.

Hux's  place is just down there, past that hill. It's like a stack of boxes, full of surprises. Some movie actor lives downstairs.

His girlfriend too. I saw them lifting weights one night.

Lea? Lea’s thoughtful, soft.

It's going to be a good marriage,

Hux's third I think. He must be close to sixty now. These late marriages: the wedding nights must be so odd.

Desire?

Of course desire, it's always there. But something else, a kind of awe: all those years of slowly dying

in singles bars,

and here you are,

starting out your life once more

with someone that you barely know.