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.