Texts From J. Alfred Prufrock

do you want to go out tonight

where

idk

like a one-night cheap hotel

or maybe one of those sawdust restaurants

Sawdust restaurants?

Like with the peanut shells on the floor?

with oyster shells

Oyster shells on the floor?

let’s have a tedious argument in the streets

have you been drinking?

the sky is so beautiful tonight

like a patient etherized on a table

I’m coming over

I’m worried about you

there’s yellow smoke on the window-panes

What kind of smoke? Did you leave the stove on?

it’s curling all around the house

You need to get out of the house

oh it’s already sliding along the street

Get out of the house

now

I’m coming over

there will be time

there will be time for you and me

they say it I know they say it

they all say it

I honestly think you’re being paranoid

“But his arms and legs are thin!”

Nobody says that about you

Or how thin my hair is getting

Your hair looks fine

You’re all saying it

you think I can’t understand you because you’re talking about Michelangelo

But I know what you’re saying about me

I like the way your arms and legs look

I like your hair the way it is

You’d like me pinned and wriggling on the wall

I never said that

I wish I were claws

I wish I were just a bunch of claws

like a crab?

no

just claws

ripping shit up with my claws

living underwater

can we go back to that oyster restaurant

that depends

are you going to pretend to be a pair of claws and scuttle around in the lobster tank?

are you going to drive me there or what

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse

A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,

Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse

you know I don’t speak Italian

Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo

No idea what you’re saying

so

let me know if you want to talk later in English

sorry new phone who is this

I told you they hated me

I told you I could hear their voices dying with a dying fall

I don’t think they hate you

I just think they were surprised to see you dressed like that

They’ve always hated me

I just don’t think they were expecting you to come in shouting

“I am Lazarus, come from the dead, come back to tell you all”

well I’m sorry

I’m sorry I’m not Prince Hamlet or whatever

Sorry to be an easy tool

No one thinks you’re a tool

It’s just a weird thing to say at a dinner party

what are you doing

like right now

working

good good

that’s good

do you think I should eat a peach

what

right now?

yeah

do you want to eat a peach?

idk

yeah

then you should eat a peach

yeah

could you give me a ride?

right now?

yeah

i’m at work

i know

where do you need a ride to?

the store

what store

i need a peach

can it wait?

not really

there’s like

a bunch of mermaids here

and they definitely hate me

I don’t know where that is

can we go back to that oyster restaurant

maybe they have peaches

I can’t leave work to go buy you a peach right now

that’s okay

that’s fine

the mermaids keep singing about drowning me

but I’ll probably be fine

okay

okay

tell me where you are and I’ll come get you

awesome

and then we can go get peaches?

yes

we can go get peaches

okay

I’ll be there in fifteen minutes

do you think I would look good with rolled trousers

like if I rolled up the cuffs

I think they would make my legs look less skinny

I don’t know

probably

I don’t know if I want a peach actually

oh my god

but you should still come get me

let’s go out somewhere