"Fool for Love" Spaiku, Part 8: Fabrication

[mere_ubu]

Bless me, LJ, for I have sinned. It has been thirty-six days since my last Spaiku post. Grant me absolution, and I will vow to post a weekly batch henceforth. Onward! Another interlude wherein Spike and Buffy Bicker at the Bronze--this time about vampirism as a profound existential experience--before the continuation of Spike's completely truthful reminiscences to her about the good old days. ;)   BtVS, S5, G. Previous parts here. Thanks to the mister for having Beta Lunch with me.
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I.
Mutters, affronted—
traded up on the food chain!
Girl has no idea.


II.
Trade a faded life
for radiant living death?
No contest, Summers.


III.
It’s transmutation:
a revamping, if you will.
S’not about diet.


IV.
Smokes, chalks a cue with
infuriating smugness;
eyeballs his next shot.


V.
Persona in place,
picks up the thread of his tale . . .
embroiders the past.

Comments

[herself_nyc]

Ahhhh.

Sounds like the same impulse I had as a kid where I'd chew the inside of my lower lip until it bled and then I'd keep poking at it with my tongue and nibbling at it and enjoying the pain which had something sort of exquisite about it. I guess a lot of kids do stuff like that.

[mere-ubu.livejournal.com]

I guess a lot of kids do stuff like that.

Or at least the ones that grow up to be perverts. ;)

I was talking to another mother at a party recently, and she confessed that her son (who's about ten y/o and cheerful kind of kid) has always seemed to enjoy pain a little bit and that he's always playing games where he tries to get other kids to tie him up! I didn't have the heart to tell her that he's probably just hard-wired for kink. I'm thinking she already knows.

[herself_nyc]

Certainly looks that way.