Cityscapes

The homeless man grins and says, “Help me out,” with an outstretched hand.

Eric looks up at the homeless man in disbelief.

He tells the homeless man to “fuck off,” but the homeless man keeps smiling and holding out his hand for money.

Eric feels frustrated at his inability to control the situation.

He struggles not to cry in front of the homeless man.

Anne gives the homeless man five dollars, and he walks away satisfied.

Eric tells her she shouldn’t have done that. She shrugs and says that it doesn’t matter. He feels something like resentment at her indifference to money.

The whole time they sit on the bench in front of her apartment, he thinks about breakup sex. He has read a lot about breakup sex, and he has seen it in movies, but he has never had breakup sex.

Maybe he is crying because he knows that Anne isn’t going to let him angrily fuck her brains out one last time.

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