The Club
I am a God.
Those words roll through my brain over and over as the elevator descends. I begin to feel the music after the first minute. Then the heat and stink of the place wafts up to me. All musk and rusted metal. Like me. Habit flexing the metal fingers of my right hand, I wipe a palm that can not sweat across my Syntha Leathe* pants. The deep growl of the dance drub begins to make the bones behind my ears hurt. I ignore the pain and pop a tab between my teeth. Liquid, bitter as bile, floods my mouth. Licking an ashtray would taste better, but then... I didn't pop it for the taste.
I am a God.
The doors open into a strobe lit darkness. My face is washed with damp heat and then the full fury of the place slams into me. My nose filters flash shut as they detect toxic levels of stink. I laugh and order them back open. The smell is overwhelming but I revel in it. I will bath in it, carry it out into the world with me when I leave. I will retch when I smell it on my clothes tomorrow, but for now it's a heavenly perfume. If I leave... That thought has come to me more and more of late. Why do I leave when there is everything here I need? Does that chemical filled shanty shack I call a house hold some needed fulfillment my soul requires? Do those modern life orphans I call friends have some hold on me? Do I owe them anything? Do I owe her...
I am a God.
My strut is predatory, as I walk into The Club. That was not its name. If it ever had a name that neon has long since died. Looking up at the ceiling, I feel my mind wanting to scream as it pictures the tens of millions of tons of rock above me. I don't dwell on it. Let it all come down for all I care. The darkness is waiting for us all let this be my tomb. Better than most have these days. The long endless roll towards the last drop. Like a hangman's drum beat, that's what the music of this place reminds me of. Not the sound... it's the anticipation of the coming fall.
I am a God.
The bitter taste turns sweet and I feel the flood of XTC shooting through my nerves. I have all the energy in the world at my finger tips suddenly. Throwing out my arms, I catch up two of the young lovelies and pull them into me. They start to protest then seeing it me snuggle in tighter. I feel their hands beginning to roam over my ass, then across my crotch. Opening my hands palms up I display the glowing green tabs. Like children for candy they grab at my fingers. Laughing at their greed I give them their treats knowing the treats I'm going to get in return.
I am a God.
But looking around I see that I'm walking among some other gods. They look at me with contempt, scorn, pity, envy, lust, I have soon seen all seven of the sins in their faces and more beside. They are not gods... simply mortal creatures of metal and flesh. Like me, but not like me at the same time. I transcend them, the way the flame does the moth. Let them try to reach to my level. Let them even try and I will burn them to ashes. They will burn like the coal fires they say burn eternaly in one of these tunnels. I will watch as their tattered silks and trashy velvets scorch.