Blanco, the great white car devours its passengers as seemingly old friend dives into eardrums to deliver smiles; to sing us August carols.
The world leader in orthopedics is spotted from east side highway near river where helicopter passengers recently drowned.
I’ve never crossed that bridge; maybe I never will.
This slice has been topped with sticky sweetness, bleached smell of potential lives failing to take hold; failing to enrich anything save my experience and his imagined diet?
Not true!
Even in dreams my shot penetrated no flesh yet left me penetrated all the same; slicing through me, I lay bleeding copious conflicting sensations that may yet one day kill me if left untreated.
Better to die knowing truth than to live knowing nothing of the kind.
In last night’s sleep the nightmarish visions of not deluded sheep simulate incisions as the blue Nazi glow in The Mountains of Madness melt us like snow and dissolve us to sadness.
In the unrhyming aftermath of implied Aryan birth, nazis are defeated and left for dead: Good riddance to bad rubbish!
And being quintessential explorers and seeing twin pubescent horrors where the rhyming never ceases as our timing falls to pieces.
But what may not be apparent is that I’m the young man in living dead film phallusy who hungers mightily for pleasures only a sleeping captive human audience could love.
I ask myself, if I am truly the protagonist, then how might I also be this quiescent observer? This slumbering host body? How can I be this sleepwalking witness who follows him through long night light hours as he mouths disembodied flesh which I recognize all too easily? How can he be so real as to feed my woolgathering desire when it is I who nurses him through his hungry nightmare adolescence?
I cannot answer HOW or WHY; I can only say that we both know it to be true.
I grasp what I can as I struggle to take it to the waking world.
Stolen movie set arthouse penis is still pissing and cumming on cue.
Mark agrees it must be fake as I swallow.
His earbuds are too loud and though I put up a fight I surrender in the end and allow him his jam session.
Clive Barker is a blue/purple devil in this portrait pictured novel – the eyes really do seem to follow you, don’t they?
The motion comic images relay our illustrated conversation.
Is he the devil or a saint? A demon or a mutant? X-Man or author?
You can feel him pressed up against you, behind you, where his urticating perforating fur penetrates ever pore in pleasurable striation.
Before opening eyes, I wonder is this Mark curved around me or perhaps that blue devil, Clive?
I wake, wrapped in Aaron’s arms, there is love in every scrap of contact…. completion found in our oft referenced flesh and blood puzzle.
His scratchy chest hair pressing firm in the soft of my back.
Without disengaging, I reach for pen and microphone as I set out to capture what languishes inside me, a dream with much meaning which can never truly be reclaimed.
In the dream, on Brian’s 42nd birthday, Aaron drives into lake, which covers family riches.
And back at campground I find well adjusted Michael, with his playful latin lover, who allows us our alone time to heal, cuddling naked and sharing our long overdue kisses, shared decades after repeatedly fucking for close to 10 years straight.
This is something that he wanted for so long and I try to let him breathe and I’m surprised to learn they fixed that years ago – I didn’t know that they could.
He’s happy and clean, old with regret yet somehow young in the satisfaction of decisions finally made.
There was no wife – no children – no victims – and he was saving himself before drowning in his own lies.
Seeing these men who never find themselves, save in these sacred gay spaces, who often actually lose themselves in the overwhelming tide of acceptance…
That story, often read, was never truly mine; a disconnect, which likely saved my life… but perhaps, although I did the smartest things, memorizing all of the rules to this deathly game of life… perhaps after all that I’ve done (or not) I simply have survivor’s guilt?
I found my Fire Island / Castro, found my Stonewall / found my Eagle, found my Saugatuck and Folsom, found my Pride in my reflection.
In the after wrath of AIDS amidst the slaughter of my peers.
In the aftermath crusades I came of age and faced my fears.
A generation’s gurney closure fighting to be free.
A journey overwriting what my story yearned to be.
Free to live a lonely man; this glut tricked out obsession.
Free to be the homo man; the slut without protection.
Free to be the ones in hell about to hearse to college.
Free to be the ones who fell without the curse of knowledge.
Free to pluck the pain from hearts of seedy sly arrivals.
Free to fuck the pain apart with no need for survival.