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Thursday, October 06, 2005

meeting twain

She bends over the sink and busily scrapes the brush across her teeth, lathering the bright blue gel into a cheery foam that drips down her chin. She notices a bright stripe of red that has gushed across the white froth just as she openes her mouth to spit out.
She coorlies and then opens her mouth and watches the water curl into the drain, making sure she keeps tapping her foot on the orange tiles hoping the vibrations keep the cockroaches at bay.
She gathers the trickles of water from the tap into her hands, and then splashes it onto her face. She puts a tiny amount of the pot of cream onto her cheeks, and then wiggles into her comfortable see-through cotton shawar kameez, adjusting the AC vents so that the blast isn’t directly on the bed. She goes out to get a last drink of mineral water from the fridge perched in their sitting room, and then puts her head into her parents room and says “shabbakhair”.
She makes sure there aren’t any stray mosquito’s to torture her in the middle of the night, and then shuts the light.
She says her ayat-ul-kursi (to ward off bad dreams and what not) as she snuggles into bed, and falls blissfully asleep.

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Shes talking on the cordless as she watches TV standing in her loft as as she brushes her teeth, and then neatly spits and gargles into the convenient kitchen sink just outside the bedroom partition. She fills a glass with tap water and takes a drink, and then walks over to her bedroom and strips down to a tank top, then hunts around the newly laundered basket and snuggles into fresh boxers.

She hangs up after making plans for next weekend. She slathers her face in night cream, puts eye pads on her eyes, and collapses amid the dirty clothes scattered on her bed, and falls blissfully asleep.

5 comments:

discopapaya said...

and the both shall never meet.

does the roach thing work?

G said...

only if we had a time machine, then we could go back to being sweet and innocent and oblivious. and not do all of that shit again.

btw the roach thing only works in pakistan where insects are STUPID. everywhere else they are bloody intelligent and fearless.

Zag said...

hmmmm.... how much timeline skipped in between??

Gauher: I've heard about all things being bad in Pakistan, but stupid insects?? Cmon now :P you can say we are stupid and backwards but never and i mean NEVER say a word about our insects!!!! (btw, i dont know where you are :D)

Phitaymaun said...

from cute to bad ass.
I'm ofcourse imagining the lives lived by this blissful sleeper lady, eventhough part 2 is frighteningly similar to what i used to live like, sans the eye pads (?) and the night cream and the tank top. The bestest thing about living alone was sleeping how ever the heck i wanted. Even nekkid, if the spirit so moved me. But you know, i wud've thought that the female of teh species would not as readily plunge into a dirty clothes strwn bed as i used to.

bakpakchik said...

niiiiiiiiiiiiice

very nice :)