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     ...Ofer Maimon

"Hi there! I'm happy you found my profile! Please sit back and let me introduce myself and my world! People often tell me that what strikes them the most about me is my bubbly personallity, my eye to detail and my pure, intrinsic evil. My closest "friends" often describe me as unintelligent, but with a well developed sneakyness that gains me insight into peoples weaknesses and an understanding of how to exploit them. I'm also known to be cheap and and as a man who rather bite his head off than pay for dinner. Some would probably point out my creepyness. Others have actually had the gaul to kvetch about my personal hygiene, looks, smell, and so on. Professionally I'm a bit of a failure I'm afraid, seing as I just got fired, but I have high hopes of tricking my insurance company into paying a few months of dole, so I might be able to pay rent for the charming studio basement apartment I'm renting in South Bronx. I have been able to hold down several jo...

truth is I never did know how to love so in the nights I flicked on the screen and let my soul fall with with the cloudy white snow flakes over yet another manhattan new years happy ending and for another 15 minutes falling through the jewel light of the shimmering city skyline I was whole I would steal the one liners from the street florists and the confessions of the heart off the city side walks I'd smoke my cigarettes in the softness of my dark room and blow the smoke through the blue light towards the ceiling waiting savioring them words saving them silver nitrate heart beats for the next girl to show up en route some place completely different such as marriage such as love I can't love and can't sleep so I visit the late night movie shows we sit few and far between I watch the couples when the light comes on they rub the fiction from their eyes and smile to each other drowsily like newborn he helps her with her coat and as they leave I tu...

come night take me in put your warm hands on mine give me your darkness and sorrows and secrets be my friend and lover as before strew your silver on the river and pour your rain on the solitary streets and give them comfort caress the street lights and the sleeping cars your breath in every lonely engine sound in every tired sleeping block come night sit down and share my coffee and my cigarettes look me in the eyes and tell me that you'll never leave me that I'll always be your child no matter what your brother and your confidant that no matter what happens you'll always be there come night with your slowing hours and your scent of time hum your song of cabbies, cops and drunks to your tune of distant sirens, distant horns and distant dreams give my regards to the starbucks clerks and the insomniacs come night with morphine for the wounded and insane come night with clarity of heart and mind and memory show me all I lost and never cried for and let me cry come night and l...