Video Was Fast (March 26. New Moon. Issue 2)

And he wanted to keep up with her. He never knew a girl like Video in his life. She was 23 and he was 18 for 2 days when they met. Video did yoga in a loose shirt at 3 a.m. on the floor of a shitty hotel lobby at the corner of 30th and Lexington while he manned the concierge desk. She was evenly tan. He saw her brown nipples. They decided to be friends.

Video was thin and long and her hair kept changing colors.

She smelled like fire. She did.

Video took him up to Harlem in the middle of the nite to buy dust on a block with 1 bldg. left standing and laughed too loud when he was searched amongst the rubble.

He smoked that Crazy Eddie shit with her on a dark and lonely Park Ave. and it made him paranoid and afraid but Video was horny and she climbed on top of him right there on the stoop and straddled him until she came with her eyes closed tightly. He ran the backs of his hands and his knuckles over her perfect abs while she pushed hard against him.

Her father was a senator from a southern state and Video was running from him. The boy was scared of the drugs but he thought she was the coolest girl ever. Once, they leaned against a fence for hours and watched a bldg. burn to the ground. On the 4th of July, Video gave him head in a cab while they rode thru Central Park. The Paki driver almost wrecked becuz he wasn’t watching the road.

Shortly, too soon, Video fell in with a man who made her his prisoner in his apartment near Columbia University where he was on the faculty. Video would call the boy late at nite at his job and whisper and tell him that the man told her she’d never leave his building alive. Then she would hang/up.

The boy was scared for her. He never knew a prisoner b4. He wished for his Video back.

But she was gone. He didn't hear from her for months. Then, out of nowhere, one of the drag queens at Disco 2000 told him that Video died in a car crash in Maryland. The boy was crushed. He knew she'd snuffed her shit on purpose becuz she always talked about it when they were naked and strung/out on the evil dust that made the Manhattan sidewalks feel like sponges beneath his sneakers.

Listen. Video killed herself in her whip. Her father paid to have her buried somewhere in the South. The boy never got to say goodbye. It ended just like that.

He loved her with all of his heart but it wasn't enough. It wasn’t his fault but he still felt horrible.

There was nothing he could do.

Video was too fast for everyone.