Gigolo I: -2015-

Gigolo I : not a man, not a myth. Just a shadow with good posture, dancing for tips in the long, ugly twilight of the mid-2010s. Would you like this expanded into a full short story or poem?

You told yourself you were a mirror, not a wound. But mirrors break too. And in the tiny fractures, you saw a boy who once believed tenderness could be free. GIGOLO I -2015-

Your suit was cheap but your manners weren’t. You held doors, poured drinks, laughed at jokes that landed like dead moths. At 3 a.m., you counted bills on a cracked leather seat, watching the city exhale steam from manholes—ghosts rising from a sewer heaven. Gigolo I : not a man, not a myth

You learned the weight of a stranger’s loneliness—how it sits on the chest, how it smells of gin and regret, how it pays in cash to avoid saying thank you . 2015 was the year of the sideways glance: smartphones reflecting faces that wanted to be seen but not remembered. You told yourself you were a mirror, not a wound