PRAISE OF THE CHEAP HOTEL
“Praise of the Cheap Hotel”
I have this friend
who travels with her own pillow
She’d heard the stories
of dust mites and detritis
and the human ash left behind
as we burn our own skin just being alive,
how a black light will reveal the stains
that remain from love affairs and porno films.
I know of another man
who won’t turn a tap off in a public washroom
for fear of contaminating what he’s just cleaned.
Well, I’ve slept …