\t\t\t\tAt least it’s not the Parc Lincoln.<\/p>\n
I just did a photo shoot of my fabulous apartment. I went for the
\nmountains of detritus in the closets, the fingerprint mounds on the
\ndoors, and the footprint stains on the floors. I did not reach the
\nParc Lincoln for a couple of months after this day in 1990, but for years
\nafter escaping that shit hole I could never set up anywhere without
\nthinking “At least it’s not the Parc Lincoln.” I remember thinking those
\nwords when I checked in to a Los Angeles Marriott for a patently bogus
\ncorporate boondoggle. And I thought those words in late 2005, when
\ncircumstances forced me to check in to a Motel 6 in Norfolk, Virginia,
\nand contemplate not only the bonus that this was not the Parc Lincoln
\nbut the fantasy I maintain that some doors are magic doors, and opening
\nthese magic doors sometimes requires a magic key, but passage through
\nthese doors transports one not just from the physical hardships of their
\nlives but the spiritual anomalies too. I fantasized about that as I
\npressed the key into the slot at the Motel 6, and I was sour to see that
\nthe room behind the door was just another motel room, all-white walls,
\nitchy sheets, cushioned chairs no human could stand to sit in… But at
\nleast it wasn’t the Parc Lincoln.<\/p>\n
It took years for me to get over the sensation of the Parc Lincoln roaches
\ncrawling into my mouth as I tried to sleep, and of the sounds of clucking
\npigeons on the needfully-opened window sill, and of the hot, hot summer
\nnights.<\/p>\n
This place is more than fine. I have been here 12 years, and this place
\nis all kinds of good things. No bed bugs, no roaches, no sounds of the
\ntransient neighbors’ beds creaking through the night. I do not mean to
\ncompare this abode to the Parc Lincoln, except to remind myself that it
\nis not the Parc Lincoln, and on that basis this place is paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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