AESTHETIC INDIFFERENCE
Mud splattered the leg of my jeans.
Wrinkled damp shirt.
The tear on my neck of my grey argyle vest seems vaguely more eastern.
Blair’s clean tight jeans and her pale blue T shirt.
Daniel is wearing sunglasses and a black wool jacket and blue jeans. He’s also wearing black suede gloves.
Blair is wearing a black leather jacket and matching pants and no shoes.
Trent – a red and green plaid scarf wrapped around his neck.
A guy in a red shirt with long stringy hair.
A pretty tan girl who is wearing a Heaven cut-off T shirt.
Trent is wearing a tie when he comes to my house, he tells me to wear one and so I put one on.
Takes ties off at party.
It’s a scarf, I put the scarf on and she smiles, murmurs ‘perfect’.
I stand alone with the scarf wrapped around my neck.
Rips wearing this thick, bulky white outfit he probably bought at Parachute, and an expensive black Fedora.
Rip grabs the scarf around my neck and pulls me into an empty room.
“ Cute scarf. Real cute. Guess Blair still likes you.”
There’s also this old guy with longish gray hair and a Giorgio Armani sweater and moccasins on who wanders past Alana.
That Japanese guy in the English beat T shirt and the tight white pants.
“ Like your scarf” Griffin says.
I walk into a closet and find a bottle of valium that I hid beneath some Cashmere sweaters.
This kid has really short, spiked blond hair and a Fear T shirt on and a black leather bracelet strapped to one of his wrists, he’s zipping up his jeans and buckling his belt.
Blair’s wearing a pink hat and blue mini skirt and yellow gloves and sunglasses.
Daniel sitting, drunk, alone by the pool, wearing black jeans and a white Specials T shirt and sunglasses.
“Don’t talk to that guy in the blue and red polo shirt.”
I button up my jeans and turn to leave.
Two guys in a booth next to mine, both wearing black suits and glasses.
I also find a picture of myself wearing jeans and no shirt and no shoes, lying on the floor wearing sunglasses.
Kim wearing tight faded jeans, high black leather boots, white T shirt, smoking a joint.
The vest is just gray and white argyle, one of the triangles is dark red.
Then she pulls up her sleeve, reaches for a belt in the darkness, finds it and wraps it around her upper arm.
And then takes her shoes off.
Two guys, priests maybe wearing business suits and ties, pink tinted sunglasses, talking about Led Zepplin.
Some guy with braces, platinium blond hair and bathing suit is lifting weights.
Julian picks up a pair of police boots. He picks up a belt, a black leather one, looks at it closely.
Blair nods and tells her to take her hat off.
Two hours later, some girl with pink hair and roller skates slung over her shoulder.
He’s lying on his bed in a wet bathing suit.
The dj isn’t wearing a shirt and he wears a leather cowboy hat.
The fat girl has a lot of make up on. She’s sipping a tab with a straw and wearing purple Calvin Klein jeans and matching cowboy boots.
And she gets up and buttons the top button on her jeans and leaves the bar.
Atiff is sitting on the couch wearing Gucci loafers and an expensive Italian suit – a freshman at U.S.C
Trent standing in the doorway only wearing jeans, hair wet.
Pulling on his shirt.
Trent stopped by, he was wearing an expensive suit.
I take off all my clothes.
My psychiatrist is wearing a red V neck sweater with nothing on underneath and a pair of cut-off jeans. He fingers the gold necklace that hangs from his tan neck.
An old man in ragged clothing and an old black hat on.
Dead wearing a pair of briefs.
A blond girl in a bikini, sitting.
He wears glasses and ripped Treton tennis shoes talking about “ AESTHETIC INDIFFERENCE”
The director, who’s wearing a Polo sweatsuit and dark glasses.
David is wearing sunglasses and a Fear T shirt.
Rip slides the black Fedora, he’s wearing over his face and grins.
The man has pink tinted glasses and very wide lapels on his jacket.
We push each others jeans down.
He’s started wearing a new cowboy hat.
Daniel’s mother is playing tennis in her bikini.
Vest.
Dimitri’s wearing black speedos and a sombrero.
Muriel shooting up, wearing my vest.
Me wearing a T shirt and Jeans.
Vest,
Holding out the Vest,
Walkout with Vest.
Trent answers the door wearing a pair of briefs.
West is hunched over wearing a string tie and a jacket. Another aid wears a red baseball cap.
Grandmother’s blouse hanging limply from her frail body, blue and yellow kerchief tied tightly around her neck.
Boy with a patch on his jeans that read “ Aerosmith Live”
West dressed in same jacket and same tie, and Wilson in same red baseball cap.
The boy who’s only wearing gray shorts.
Julian buttoning his sleeve.
Pants.
Slacks and a shirt and tie.
“ Can I take my jacket off?”
“ Why don’t you take off your tie?”
“ And your shoes and socks”
Julian slips out of his shirt and pants
Folding his pants
Julian’s jockey shorts
Julian takes off his underwear.
Lee’s tie.
Pushes back the jacket sleeve, shirt, his own belt and ties it.
Rips wearing black 501’s and a white X T shirt.
Spin’s wearing a t shirt that reads – Gumby- Pokey. The Blockheads.
Boy in Under the Big Black Sun, T shirt bumps into me.
No socks.
Takes off his shirt and then his jeans.
Trent unbuttoning his shirt.
Still wearing the same clothes.
Rip wearing a Billy Idol T shirt,
wearing shorts and T shirt and sunglasses.
I’m wearing an old Polo bathing suit and a T shirt.
He’s wearing sandals and a Hard Rock Café T shirt.
I’m in Parachute with Trent.
Trent tries clothes on.
Evan is trying clothes on.
Jockey shorts and argyle socks.
Sisters – still wearing bikinis and sunglasses.
I was wearing jeans and a T shirt and an old baggy argyle sweater and tennis shoes with no socks.
In OP shorts and a yellow T shirt, with Maul etched across.
A black Clash T shirt.
Aesthetic Indifference.
Lisa Penny 2015