Smoke Breakers, Best Buy edition
- Your friends do meth?
- Yeah. I mean whatever. Nobody calls it meth, tho. Don't say meth.
- What should I call it?
- Tweak. Tweeking.
- Twerking?
- haha, Yeah you should call it twerking. Twerk video.
- Booty shortz & teeth grindr
- This guy I used to know was an ex-addict, & all his stories started out "When I was an addict dot dot dot". He was addicted to telling them, like he couldn't help it. I wish I knew him before he got clean.
- haha But not really?
- I guess, you know. Now it's like he doesn't even think. He just defends himself against tweaking. Like a bot. It's the same patterns staying clean & getting fucked up. The same appetites.
- But that just proves you how hard he probably was into drugs. It's impressive to me, actually. But I didn't date him.
- I didn't date him either, I said I knew him. Nosy.
- Well I didn't know him, either, I mean, but it's impressive he could swing the pendulum the other way & get clean.
- Well, it's still kinda boring to me, him always talking about the drugs he USED to do. Things always ends up boring when I recognize the pattern in them. You don't notice it at first with tweakers cuz you're distracted by the chance that someone might do something spontaneously unoriginal like sprint across the interstate or explode the house.
- That's fun?
- It's not boring.
- Maybe he's better off being boring?
- Maybe. & maybe healthier & less of a danger to himself & others, but...
- haha You say it like it's so terrible. Maybe you're the drippy bitch who's boring.
- haha Yeah, I suck. BIG TIME. I'm not ruling that out at all. What's that song {sings} *if you're bored then you're boring*
{both sing} *PARANOIA PARANOIA EVERYBODY COMING TO GET ME!*
- That song is like the tweak anthem.
- Tweak Anthem, get ya damn hands up.
- Imagine a whole crowd of, like, shaky hands waving up in da club.
- & like twerkin' it?
- haha I'm txting that to Simona.
- Simona Sez.
- Simona Sez throw yr damn hands up.
- Simona Sez gimme yr drugs.
- Simona Sez gimme all yr lovin'.
- We gotta get back inside.
- Simona didn't sez.
- haha Simona Sez we gotta get back to work.
- No we GOTTA finish this cigarette. Simona won't care.
**hey if you find yourself writing short dialogues like this that may spring from some conversation you overhear or out of your own head and that don't really fit into prose or poetry, tag them #V.O.I.D. and we can start sharing
~rjb