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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

I answered my phone. Did you know there’s pornography on the computer? my mother asked. I closed my laptop. It seemed the decent thing to do.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

The shower brings out the falsetto in me, I sing, handing her the herbal soap. What about that? she asks, pointing at a sensitive part of me.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

Some of the people say dumb things all of the time. I take a pull of beer. And what are you? she asks. Though I thought I’d proven my point.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

And she starts to cry. Half the commercials on tv are meant to make you fat, I say. I squeeze her belly. Look, I say. She cries even harder.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

So this is where you’re going to live, I say and my father sighs and says, I’m not that old. Then he gets out of the car. Fuck you, he says.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

The man on stage asks, How do you define success? and though no one will say it, we know it means being paid to ask inane questions on stage.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

She cooks her eggs runny and that’s the one thing I really hate, like so much, so I start to shake and then my mom says, So move out already.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

I said the things I was warned not to say. I operated in a way not amenable to civilized behavior. This explains why I told her I loved her.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

I told her how I liked to use salad dressing. She called me a pervert. A week later she showed up at my work and said, I’m partial to Ranch.

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By Arjun Basu | Published: November 9, 2013

I made the mistake again, because it was an easy mistake to make, and because it bugged her and I loved her that much. She always forgave me.

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