(13) Where to Give Up
Where to Give Up
Half way up.
The side of the road.
10 pages in.
At the first thought of sex.
In the attic of the family home.
Mid-sneaze.
Year eleven.
Agincourt.
200 metres from the ground.
In bed.
When the going's good.
When the going's bad.
Before you go.
The place you've been 10 times before, and no, you're not going back again.
The alter.
A hotel room in Hawaii.
Fifty fathoms deep, as the oxygen metre trips past 0.5.
A lover's embrace.
Half through the portal.
At breaking point.
At gunpoint.
At any point.
On the edge of revelation.
On the edge of collapse.
When it's all going to hell.
Hell.
Surrounded by friends and family.
A meditation retreat.
Room 4, the first motel after exit 17, you'll know it
By the sign of the hummingbird and the kidney shaped pool.