Walking into the cold city darkness in my not-unpleasant, whiskey warm stumble toward Claritin-D and embryonic friendship with stunning young man who unknowingly rips me in half with answers I don’t have concerning my partner’s state of mind.
The truth is there’s been almost no time to enquire in new scheduled madness… but the truth has never felt more like a lame excuse.
On the way back to gay sports bar, after kindness in complimentary never-ending hallway with the book that apparently nobody wants or needs, we again stumble into unknown territory on another subject I feel I should better grasp as it borders on both experience and uncensored friendships which have somehow (again) left me lacking coherence or apparent depth upon current recollection…
Yet I must question if these memories are accurate or merely rambled here for dramatic effect, for an audience who demands that I write but refuses to listen.
The real truth, the more appropriately honest fortune cookie wisdom crunches open beneath Poetry Table instructions for impromptu musings…
When all I’m thinking about are new people weaving in and out of my experience which dangle here in disarray to be encompassed later in organized impressions.
In my dream we were traveling in a car though I can’t remember which one of us was driving.
I was telling you that this rift between us was meaningless; that the times we spent in bed together were unimportant now; it was lovely and fun but that’s all it was for me; we needn’t be so distant to prevent us from falling into old patterns.
You told me that I was wrong and that
ALL of those times ((((MATTERED)))).
In a near whisper: “They mattered a lot.”
It didn’t hurt you that I was unaware, but you were explaining that your wife knew how much it mattered to you… and this is why we seldom cross paths; this is how the rift began.
And though the past did not hurt me, it was clear that the past had slowly poisoned our present.
And our seemingly casual lovemaking had casualties that I had not been aware of.
Bleeding and breathing and moving to accommodate secret meeting of strangers who are smart enough to avoid hospital television ramblings I block out with Endgame trailer music.
I’ve never seen an experienced barista struggle so much with what was right in front of them – – the instructions are right there on the side of the SHORT cup but she removes them to apply them to a TALL before being told politely that it’s meant to be short – as she then awkwardly corrects that bizarre error and then proceeds to get everything else wrong – which I will not allow.
I paid $4.00 for that so please fill it to the top like I asked.
Thank you so much!
Waiting room madness continues as we’re all pressed into service for mysterious summons whose purpose, when inquired is refused by staff who ask that we cease to congregate near the windows…
What are they hiding from us?
Not long before two police arrive, and then two more… and then Anna asks me into her office so we miss the exciting conclusion.
With procedural horror drama behind us we fall into productive discussions of PTSD, hot urologists, respectful penis inspectors, family dinners and reinforcement – positive vs. negative – bleeding and breathing and moving to accommodate my future integration.
When I reach the ground floor lobby, the fantastic woman named after an ancient female vampire asks me for my details and we witness man being seen to by a horde of police men surrounding an ambulance.
Strike the match. Strike that. Strike up the band and burn us to the ground.
Listen to nothing. Listen to no one.
The deaf, moved by deepest vibrations, rise up to meet us betwixt silence and cacophony; teaching us how to feel and interpret the words they can’t hear but feel with a depth which we sometimes lack.
We are blind and struggle – reaching out to recognize the face of reality – the face of the universe – inverse infinity – infinite perversions of intended design.
Revelation yearned for is as momentous as imagined… if only for moments which we believe were imaginary.
The boredom of youth relieved by seduction – no love or lust; just blissful destruction – just practice; no hardship; no need for regret – just beautiful lips of boys he’ll forget.
Beautiful boys together in boredom – the time of their lives in self enslaved whoredom – beautiful boys who’ll one day be men – who dreamed they were toys when they would be again.
I have the sickness. I have to express. I have the thickness. I have to confess. I have the wetness. I have the shame. I have been sexless. I have been stained. I have been tested. I’ve been observed. I’ve been suggested. I have been heard.