Wonder Dave

Inventing a Lover

I’ll be doing this and a bunch of other new stuff at the Cheap Theater Show at Black Forest Inn on Sept 12th at 7:30 Inventing a Lover after Meghan O’Rourke’s Inventing a Horse Inventing A Lover is not easy One must not only think of the person One must think of interactions; dinner, movies, conversation One must include a bed suitable for lovers to sleep in or sleep in with a human like you You must imagine his body heat next to yours; smell breakfast cooking when half the bed is empty accustom yourself to the confines of a duet holding in mind even when you are tired promises, reactions, vows and consequences One must imagine the grief from him being absent One must build someone not frightened by your flaws or the cracking of your toes each morning who understands the times you are being timid versus the times you patience has grown thin with silence One must imagine the absence of money carrying another person through such a thing, the living weight of his feet on the cold bathroom floor stray bits of shaved stubble since he is real therefore inconvenient and sometimes tired after climax sweat on his brow the thick smell of sex humid in the air one must imagine love in the mind that does not know love an alien mind, a love that does not depend on your image of it; indifferent to all that you lack Build a home complete with a fogged up bathroom mirror scents you have yet to soak into your skin and a pile of crumpled bed sheets