Theory of Melody
Music
He found her dancing. Hair hiding face. Dark. Hands whipping open. Bass. Feet fleeing stillness. Arms arching back. Silence. Climax superfluous as taut sweat charged.
He awoke next to her one morning. Well, Mr. Roberts awoke. Her arms crawled the headboard while her eyes searched the past, languidly stretching back to this world.
The male gaze inescapable, for him, at times.
Ring interrupted. Her computer flipped up. Limboed blue dots sighed. Shoulders locked-in. Fingers clicked-clacked. Coffee.
A face soon covered the screen. Her head began bobbing, lips mimed agreement. Waiting, for the voice to slow down into mellow completion to slide in her piece in return. Atonal handshake. Foot shaking in hidden rebellion.
Her colleagues awoke. He had to move. Messages piled. Urgency pinged. Invites relentless. Headlines in downtimes. Comments drove by. Code-switching, note-taking, hot-takes abuzz. Until it all ended. The day being done.
“How was your day?” “Nothing of note.”
She submerged in her socials. Scroll. Flip. Shriek. Frown. Flip. Flow. Fairies and lovers till bed.
He was left out. What was that dancing?
The rhythm repeated. She lived for those weekends. To throw her head back, surrender to silence.
He never got her postmodern song.
“Not for nothing I have lived through the day” Waiting for Godot
“The facts are sonorous but between the facts there’s a whispering. It’s the whispering that astounds me.” The Hour of the Star
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate” Blood Meridian
“My whole life has been like a violent storm or a ship amidst the waves at the will of the winds. I am a man, Your Excellency!” Dead Souls
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