Amber Poe

There was blood on the page. This is the most that I remember, of that night, of waking in the strange apartment high in that building that overlooked streets I did not recognize. Even now, the memories of that place come in clots. The world still breaks on me like a wave, at day. My nights are long, endless really, and I feel the tide sucking a little bit more of my forgotten psyche away each morning that spaces me from whatever happened that night. I remember most clearly, though, the blood on the paper.
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Shrijani's Questionaire

1. Do you like your name? [My middle and my last name. My first name... I rarely claim, although my biological family and a few of my oldest friends still call my by it.]

2. Whether or not you like the one you've got, what other name would you choose for yourself, given the opportunity/forced at gunpoint? [Avalon Devereaux.]

3. If God sat down next to you at a lunch counter, what would you say to Her? [I'm... really unsure about this.]


4. Are you balking at the feminine pronoun in question 3? If so, why? [I would have expected nothing less of you, Shri. And, no, I wouldn't balk anyway.]

5. I thought so. [I... figured you would.]

6. No, number five was not a question. What do you say to that? [It doesn't make a very good questionaire for it to be full of statements, now does it?]

7. Do you use conditioner? Everywhair? [On my... head? Yea, that's about it. And, skin conditioner... but I think this question might confuse me subtely.]

8. What is your favorite raw meat? [I'm unsure if the octopus used in Sushi is raw... but, if so, that. If not... good ol' beef, baby.]

9. What do you want for your birthday this year? [This year, (since I just had a birthday) I got one of the major items I wanted (a sewing machine). Next year, I want people to buy me body art (pay for peircings, tattoos), and a Viola. That's about all that I can think of, on my list, right now.]

10. If I were to sit down next to you at a lunch counter, what would you say to me? [Well, hello to begin with. I think we'd do ok, just going from there...]

11. Have you never been mellow? [A rarity. I probably have, but I can't think of a specific instance.]

12. Have you never tried? [Not deliberately, no. Tried to be calm, but never tried to be mellow.]

13. Will you marry me? If so, are you married already? [Hell yea I'd marry you! And no, I'm not married already.]

14. What is your relationship with monogamy? [Begrudgingly constant. I don't believe in it being 'the only way', though Polyamory is hard to swing. Very hard.]

15. What is your relationship with single malt scotch? [Bowmore is the only way, baby. I don't drink, but one of the few alcoholic beverages I can pallate is good scotch. My friend Falon once said that, if you have a taste for scotch, your liver is already gone. I am the proof that this is not true.]

16. Were you "popular" in high school? [I went to the 'reject' school, and was liked among my peers.]

17. Who is your least favorite [read: most disliked] musical artist/band? [Me first and the gimme gimmies.]

18. Try again. [Britney Spears?]

19. Try again. [Sisters of Mercy...?]

20. Explain why you like Bruce Springsteen, because I just don't get it. [I never said I -liked- springsteen, but... I don't HATE him like I HATE other people. Like Me First and the Gimme Gimmies.]

21. Was your first kiss worth the bother? How about your twenty-sixth? [Yes. It was a heady experience... overall. And, it wasn't really a bother, it just rather... happened. I don't remember specifically which kiss was the twenty sixth, but there haven't been many in my life that I regretted for any real concrete reason.]

22. Have you ever had a sexual encounter that makes you cringe with disgust to this very day? (This is a yes or no question - you don't have to elaborate unless you're drunk.) [You know... I don't think so.]

23. Have you ever done the Macarena (sp?) in public? Do you regret it deeply? [Yes, but no regrets. I was in middle school at the time. I am forgiven on principal by anyone worth my regret, were it to exist.]

24. What word do you have difficulty spelling, even though you are obviously a genius? ['Stretch'.]

25. Does your family indulge in correct verb tense? [Can I bought a vowell?]

26. Does it drive you out of your mind when people ask you stupid questions? [At work, yes. Otherwise, I can tell people to fuck off.]

27. What are you going to do about it? [Tell you to fuck off.]

28. I am going to issue another 28 questions within the next 28 hours. Does this cause rage or delight? [Inexorable Joy!]