Wanting Notes

Tracing the contour of whoever's inside.

I.

When I was twenty-four I moved to Los Angeles with my then-boyfriend, having never visited at all. We slept in a converted tractor-green short bus parked most consistently outside the Culver City lot where (we heard) Californication was filmed. We showered at cheap gyms and yoga studios and rode the city bus to the Santa Monica public library most day…