Chicken intervention
At her thinnest Trish grew a pelt of fur that covered her body. That’s not really true the hair was light and fine but still gross, and she had to shave her arms. Trish was a twin and both her and her sister got hystericalectomys at a young age. I really think they were uncomfortable with their femaleness and so tried to have it cut out. Her sister was skinny too.
Trish may not have eaten much but she really boozed it up. She also had a drugstore in her purse. Anti D’s, Anti-anxiety’s, tranks and sometimes cocaine. She claimed to have the worst case of agoraphobia in the country which was ridiculous as she was all over the place. She’d told the first doctor that she felt uncomfortable in the middle of fields. He was a doctor feelgood and prescribed three meds and a diagnosis based solely on this purported field fear. I went to him and told him I got nervous in grocery store lines and he gave me the same triad. His name was Butt and he later got blacklisted by the medical community and left town.
Thing about Trish though is that she still looked good in a bathing suit, she had an ass. We’d go to the beach a lot. Lake Michigan. Trish always brought a lot of snack food and beers. The snack food went uneaten unless it was fruit, oh and she would gnaw on the cheese occasionally.
I didn’t care that Trish was skinny in fact I liked it cause it bugged other people but when her hair started falling out and she took to wearing wigs, it was kind of iffy being seen with her. The wigs were big and long and there was a clown aspect about her appearance. Stick skinny with huge hair, Barbie dollish. I had to be in the mood for lots of attention—via strangers eyeballing us—if I went anywhere with her. The wigs had bangs that she had cut to disguise the wigness. The bangs stuck straight out. Almost parallel to the ground.
Trish was big on the soft glow therefore most of the lamps in her house had scarves over them. It was dim lighting for sure in the bathroom and the result of that was that she always had nightclub makeup on. Scary in the light of day.
I lost Trish at Borders once and was about to ask the lesbian on duty if she’d seen her but she interrupted telling me the big-haired girl was in magazines. Trish actually read a lot, mostly books detailing atrocities against women. She thought of herself as an activist but alls she did was run her mouth. Plus she had no gripe, she lived like a rich woman supported by her husband and then ex-husband, Blair. They divorced so she could continue getting disability health insurance.
Trish liked to go out to eat a lot. She always sent the food back though. She also thought everyone in restaurants was staring at her and they probably were cause she was so loud.
I made her eat half a roasted chicken once, and mashed potatoes. I told her I’d give her a paper of heroin. At the time I was trading art for heroin and always had some on hand. She totally devoured the thing, it was gross to watch.
I haven’t seen her in a while. She went into hiding after she killed her dog. It was a Pomeranian, she shook it too hard and snapped its neck.