The changes in texture can be delicate or pernicious; at every annual increment there comes a blending, a harmony of vintage soul and cutting edge splendor, shades of winter chills and sprays of summer sunsets.
Some years stay with us longer than others and can be overpowering, melding lilting notes ferocious and graceful, deadly and dominating.
Others are so stealthy and discreet as to seem completely illusory.
I ponder such things as the librarian unbuttons my shirt again.
Clark Kent tells me I’m cute and smart while I blush, imagining the taste of his 31 year old Kryptonian asshole, which will germinate once again one month from yesterday.
Every gesture, hint of desire, every longing whisper is patterned on a needlessly shameful lust, disguising an eroticized guilt that all beasts, alien or otherwise must one day come to endure.
Need as aphrodisiac. Weakness presented as strength.
A world of the senses where nothing makes sense and all answers are contradictory.
The kissing is subtle, blurred water color shimmer of thoughts and sensations.
I suspect I will only ever be his friend, despite our movements to the contrary; I overcomplicate things, you see?
People in relationships are threatened by complexity. Keep things simple. Keep sex simple. Only sex is never simple for me and never has been. I can pretend that it is. I can say that it is. But I must be more than a trick to access such depths.
It has been ages since I even attempted to reach such profundity without conversation, connection, correlation…
Yet even I know this pleasure is simple, while all that writhes beneath and behind is exceedingly complicated.
I’ve just never been good at wearing masks.
Aaron would understand this, I think. He knows me, yes, but he would connect with my questions because he now asks them himself.
Zsolt was anything but simple, and yet he was simple all the same.
A brave, defiant act that I can both admire and detest, encourage and deny; I feel for that man. Under different circumstances, a change of location, I likely wouldn’t have been nearly so troubled.
Animals howling in the night. Lonely, reassuring, reclaiming their places by the fire.
The geography of sex, the distance between two hearts in the aftermath of such a journey, is a mathematical equation revealing how much I will hurt… which is seemingly diametrically opposite of what others seem to achieve or experience.
“Are you okay?” he asks me 12,000 times.
I ask him about Lois Lane and I listen to his smile about Grindr, his love for their home in Boystown, and I know that he loves her.
I let him know I’m not having sex with him tonight.
It’s not because of Lois. Well it is. But’s it’s not. It’s not even because of Aaron, who has said that I’m allowed to sleep with any superhero of my choosing. It’s really just because of my need for, and love of, complication.
I never want to be just a trick.
The librarian with the interestingly spelled middle name who has complimented me on my seemingly youthful features and the size of my photographed cock walks with me to the Metropolis subway, begs me to text him all night, and sings me to slumber beneath poetry scrawls in my stoned drunken handwriting.
Tonight after haunted days of painful painlessness a siege of sirens comes to serenade, seduce and succor… to simplify… to supply me with solace as I drown beneath waves of mutilation (with apologies to Pixies).
My Aaron sings to me his soothing tones which are less like music; more like verse… strumming my ribcage beneath salt water seas, we swim naked for hours through tears we’ve not shed.
The other Aaron, the Aaron between us, he haunts through photograph, text and memory, echoing across time and geography to be one with us again.
There are naked hungry men beneath those shadowed depths, those sombre shades of green lit by melancholy movie soundtracks.
The mermen dive for pleasure and breathe truthfully through gilled fantasy lies which excite and entice me before dragging me down to my death.
In amber and glow, through fogged glass of sunken ships she is weeping her mermaid crocodile tears.
This is not truly Jamie; this being is not my sister or my therapist. The former doesn’t speak to me, even on land and the latter will soon be lost to me – just as I left her (unforgivably) in the haste of my waking nightmare.
She will forgive me this unforgivable sin.
She is strong but she is wounded – like me, underwater – like me, and she will rise again – like me.
Could this truly be her after all?
I smile and wave goodbye to her but she can’t see me until Thursday.
Mermaid simulacrum smiles just the same… but here my visions come to an end.
Men’s eyes can be laughing sparkle, heavy lidded with hunger or stupor, dead with rejection, ghosted with tears, shaded with guyliner, or frosted with burning hatred.
All that matters is that they stare if only momentarily into my own.
That mind jolt penetrating to the core of inspiration.
That look a month ago – with listen and spark, sex and magic – has yet to be replaced or forgotten.
There are waves of imaginary men rolling toward us with intended potential excitement but they seem empty, devoid of spark.
Aaron squared was more than a somewhat clever joke.
Expanded healing pleasure / honest friendship, minus the fantasy lies that fuel countless tear stained orgasms with an intense burst of impossible wet dream madness; a bruising lust which stings while it drives senses to extremes – a Cenobite encounter plagued by hardships with luscious pleasures yet to be realized, yet to curse or release me through a torturous curative of transformative sex.
My lover’s name twin is sweet and tempts me with poli-normative affection… he shames me with his goodness in the shadowed eclipse of my darkest desires.
His double penetrations are pure spiritual retreats which offer to halt my advance into the endless abyss of my deviant sex drenched day dreams.
I still struggle toward the depths but their darkness seems twice as blinding after his personal brand of effervescent sparks.