Still keyed up from the work jag and the phone call from the young man at the new museum. Murphy is restless too, kneading the pillow beside my head and purring loudly. Might as well turn the light on and write.

Thinking about Luke. Maybe it is the moon. The moon and the excitment. A male painter -- you'd know his name if I wrote it -- told me he never had sex when he was working. "Takes the edge off," he said.

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