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For the sake of my beautiful mistress I played the brute; I had to look like I would eat your leg up in a chic, adorable kind of way. My role was to repel and to attract. As we did the main drag along the shops and the esplanade, me running to keep up with her, I was the compact and fierce embodiment of her sexual power which she could unleash or hold back with a movement of her little finger. Ah! Was it not clear to me that at bottom I was there to underline her invulnerability? I was the prop for her image of a carefree fashionable person who could never be hurt. Like a faithful creature I let the hurts that inevitably came fall on me. All her disappointments and her miseries I chomped up like a sink disposal. I offered my own delicate back for her to dump on. I terrified the anxieties that bestared her. A bulldog isn’t a stone! 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I writhe in my seat anticipating the tapestry of humanity that will unfold here; that I will witness, welcome, contain if only for a few stops. The sudden inertia of the tram slings a man into the booth next to me. I notice pigmentation blooming across his cheek, betraying an adolescence burdened by cystic acne. The base note of his cologne is warm, and sweat stains clutter his collar. Heavy metal oozes from his headphones and sit in my ear like tinnitus. In the seats adjacent, an elderly couple stare vacantly ahead but something about the way they interlace arthritic fingers feels adolescent. Outside the pulsing window, inner-Melbourne transpires- a mosaic of industrial spaces realised cleverly anew: urban wineries and boutiques boasting in-house tailoring. It dawns on me, suddenly, the affection I have for this city and the sentiment collects in my throat. The doors part and the tram fills with the ambrosial smell of a well-kept garden. 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