Monday, May 11, 2026

Antony and Cleopatra Jan. 10, 2014

 


She needs it to be

More than it was with them,

Antony’s embrace

Her perfect shape,

Revealed to him

Out of an unrolled rug,

The tapestry of survival

Weaved with their

Moving limb,

Romantically potent

Politically suicidal,

As Caesar comes

To wedge them apart,

Their love

Too entangled

With the affairs of state,

Doomed because

It became too public,

And threatened to unravel

More than just the limbs

Of a man and woman,

At stake the future of an empire.

She needs to be different

This time around,

Thinking love conquers all

When it hardly ever does,

She the Queen of the Nile,

Whose mere presence

Seduces the greatest of men,

Leaves all with the greatest dismay,

She needs the tale to be less deadly,

Power to mean less

When all she really wants

Is for him

(whomever might serve

As Antony this time)

To love her more

Than just a conquest,

To love her so much

He might surrender

The world

So that he might have her.


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the relief of rain Sept 1, 2012

 

It is not yet fall

it merely feels like it is

 a pesky drizzle spoiling 

this end of summer ritual

for everyone but me

I feel relieved

 cleansed

the Cool wet clinging to me

drawing out of my pores

the last draught of Summer woes

 leaving me to feel drained

unable to fill the space

 left empty by it all

the vacancy love brings

and takes

which cannot be restored overnight

or with a change of season

like that of an intense pain

modified out of the passage of time

so what was wrong once

now becomes a naggingly numb

no longer unbearable

 yet still there fading

never gone

the old fire snuffed out

 except for the embers

that if I breathe wrong

I might I reignite

or move wrong and rub

I will bring back the throb

to deep pain

 I formally felt

maybe I always will


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Sunday, May 10, 2026

From a distance Dec. 4, 2012

  

Sometimes we say too much, thinking we say too little, this profanity we mistakenly engage int, then regret, leaving hope lost in the exchange – what we wanted is not prudent in a day when we always want too much and give back too little, condemned now to admire from a distance the way a moth might admire a star.

What love I have must be unrequited, must be sent from this place to that place on some winged messenger with no real connection, no tender touch, only the desperate words to convert her rage into something less acute. I have nothing left but this, the vain desperation that is never enough, a heart that skips beats even in defeat, admiring what I see, living with what I must feel, stranded in a place where she used to be, and where only in spirit, in imagination, ever stand together again.


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Get with the program


 

Jason offers to give me a blow job to have me introduce him to the band.

This is apparently standard procedure: groupies give the roadies and sound men blow jobs so they can get to fuck the band.

Only in the most cases, the groupies happen to be girls.

Being a relatively new soundman and more than a bit shy, I did not ask for or offer blow jobs.

This really pisses off the rest of the crew, who tell me I need to get with the program.

“You want to screw up a good thing?” the light man said. “The band fucks these chicks, we ought to get a piece of the action.”

Jason, of course, is not a girl, a fact I point out to them. They tell me it doesn’t matter, and if I don’t start acting right, I might not have may job as sound man any more, and said I have to get a blow job when the next groupie asks – which turns out to be Jason.

I’d seen the boy around for some time, an 18 year old with ID that says he’s legal, when I’m scared he might even be younger. He had red hair and puffy lips others claimed were good for sucking dick, what he wants to do for the band if only I would make the introduction.

The light man and roadies tells me I had to let Jason blow me for the good of the crew. When I ask why one of them can’t do it, they tell me it’s my turn.

Jason has no qualms about blowing me, even when I tell him I’m not gay, and wants to do it more, and even offers to give references to others as to how good at it he is, which I tell him isn’t necessary, then started to stall, finding all sorts of excuses as to why I couldn’t let him do it on this day or that.

When the others hear about this, they lay down the law and give me a deadline. I had to let Jason do it sometime during the upcoming weekend or they would ask the band to fire me.

“I could dress up for you,” Jason tells me. “Some people like it better if I look like a girl. Then you can pretend you’re getting a blow job from a girl groupie.”

“I don’t take blow jobs from boy groupies or girls,” I tell him, and he looks at me as if I’m out of my mind.

With the band playing three nights over the weekend, I have time to come with a plan.

When the band finished on Friday, the light man asks if Jason had done it yet. I say it didn’t work out, the same excuse I use on Saturday when the roadies ask.

Then, setting up for Sunday, the light man tells me: “It’s now or never.”

I think about complaining to the band, but I know they will take the crew’s side, since the crew provides the supply of fresh girls they get to screw. The band might just fire me on the spot.

Keeping his word, Jason shows up in drag, so beautiful he even gave the rest of the crew second thoughts about taking a blow job from him.

But by this time, it is the principle of the thing, and after the first set, the crew drags me out to the van to do what needs to be done. They bring Jason there next.

“Why don’t you lie and tell them I let you do it,” I ask Jason.

“I couldn’t do that. That would be dishonest,” Jason says, though truth be told my constant denials has sparked up an intense interest in me. He wants to do me even if I never helped him get closer to the band.

At this point, I see the rest of the crew peeping at us through the van’s rear window, shouting of me to get on with it.

Everything depends on me. I have to go through this almost sacred ritual in order to keep the faith.

Jason reaches across the seat, putting his hand on my leg, looking at me with those puppy dog eyes of his, and his perfect puffy lips.

“Please,” he said. “Do this for me.”
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Quota May 10, 2026

  

I’m shock as to how often people fuck when I fuck so little (if at all), sometimes multiple partners all in one day (one woman told me she fucked four men during her lunch break from work, and was shocked at my being shocked).

This explains how out of touch with reality I am, fucking, not football, is the real national past time, and if you don’t get to fuck at least once during a Friday night at the dance clubs, you’re a loser – some even fucking each other in the clubs, some going much further, and it’s no wonder I was so shocked back when she told me all the things she told me, and why felt (and still feel) so envious.

I really need to step up my game or get a new quarterback to get me into the endzone.

Not everybody fucks complete strangers, but most people make the attempt, polishing up their introductions, their pick up lines, all with the idea of scoring.

Maybe I’m talking to the wrong people, maybe people don’t fuck as much as I think they fuck, but I suspect they fuck more, multiple partners, gang bangs and the lot. Do they fuck like porn stars? Do men cum on the face?

Do women give a lot of blow jobs, the next best thing to fucking? Or perhaps just a bit of foreplay before they go all the way.

I used to think the members of our band were bad, getting blow jobs in the van between each set, each time with different women.

I was envious then, and still am, needing to make my quota.

 


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The Lone Ranger all there is July 14, 2024

 

 sometimes all there is

is this and if we blink it is gone

Joy being that brief moment in the Sun

that can blink out with the passing clouds

I watch her as she broadcasts those moments

she alone except for the dream she rides

 and knows it is all she needs

you can hear it in her voice

still a small girl but in an adult's body

and as desperate to keep hold of this

before the clouds come to shroud it

you can see it in her eyes

a vision of what she sees

the intense sense of purpose

I hear it in her voice

as she takes us along with her

on that ride

A Lone Ranger seeking paths

she's not treaded on before

and may never tread on again

this ride

 this journey

all there is

all there ever will be


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Truth be told

 Okay I admit it I wanted to do her the moment I first saw her seated across from me at the once a week meeting 


I am a bundle of raging hormones in a state of perpetual arousal,  maybe not able always to get it up but always wanted to, like the sissy slave the mistress keeps always horny for when services needed

 

I have a vivid imagination, so that first time and many times later, I pondered how it would feel to fill up each orifice and sometimes pictures her kissable lips glistening with liquid of my making 


And maybe I still feel the same for these years later yeah long after any possibility of such a situation has vanished,sometimes it's more acute than other times but the ache is always there, oh these days it's not just about her, I noticed the attractions wherever I Go


and no amount of self stimulation can erase it, no sticking my sticky fingers in the mellon bin at the supermarket or the box of popcorn at the movies will make it go away 

I walk around with it as if in chained baggage too heavy for any mere human to bear,, full of fucl wishes that will never come true, a general malaise but I must live with day in and day out