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 again

with someone that you barely know.