Monday, February 27, 2012

Ode to a Cheap Hotel Room

Cheap hotel room.
How many secrets and stories could you tell?

How many lovers have fucked here?
How many newly separated spouses have cried here?
How many traveling business men have collapsed exhausted here?
How many children in traveling families have laughed here?
How many homeless have taken refuge here for a night, a week, or longer?

Your features are unmistakable -
The smell of disinfectant greets your guests as they open the door.
Your multicolored bed spread, designed to hide stains, is not fooling anyone.
Your heating/air unit ensures that your guests are either too hot or too cold.
Your walls are so thin that only the illusion of privacy remains.

What happens here is is only whispered.
Secret lovers steal a few hours here, hidden in rooms surrounded by guests who are lonely, wounded, or recovering from life's blows.
They'll leave as quietly as they arrived, leaving a tousled bed as the only evidence that they were here.

Cheap hotel room.
How many secrets and stories could you tell?





5 comments:

Clem said...

Funny.
I think I've experienced nearly all of those feelings and thoughts.
Add in cheap hotel rooms around the world here then too.
Yup, air handling units that sound like class 2 tornados.

I always love the local news shows that during a sweeps week come in with their cameras and their black lites, showing off their prowess at showing us the worst.
Makes me chuckle always.

Ryan Beaumont said...

Sounds like a country song! I'm thinking Conway Twitty.

Ben said...

Had to go to Kansas City for a business meeting on Monday. My wife/lover came along; she is originally from the area. Decided to stay in a clean but cheap motel, for a weekend of slutty fun. We truly relish sex in a luxurious hotel room, but sometimes life on the other side is a turnon as well.

fleur.d.laura said...

I love it!

fleur.d.laura said...

I love it!