Real Fiction / Florin Piersic Jr. , translated by Oana Ionescu: Take It Off, He Said

I’ve been alone, he said, for too long. I just want to talk to someone. That’s it. You know what I mean. If you don’t want to, we may not talk at all. We can listen to a record. Or watch a movie. That’s it. You know what I mean. At some point, it gets to you. Loneliness, I mean. You know what I mean. It crushes you. And all you want is to feel that there’s someone there. That’s all. I just want …