The Canticle of Skoozle

SKOOZLE, SKOOZLE, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GORGEOUS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL LINEBACKER EARTH ANGEL BOY U WERE, SKILLED IN THINGS PAST NUMBER, GLAD OF THE DAY, AS IN YR BOLD ATTEMPT 2 FATHOM THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE (U WERE TH@ EVOLVED, TH@ UNDETERRED BY WARNINGS FRM THE MISERLY ELDERS) & EDIFY YR FELLOW MAN U SINGLE-HANDEDLY (HA-HA) REVIVED THE ANCIENT RITES OF SANCTIFIED HARLOTRY ENJOINED UPON U BY DESTINY & THE GODDESS ASTARTE, THEN CHALKING UP THE POOL CUE TIP & BENDING OVER THE GREEN BAIZE BILLIARD TABLE TOOK A FARRIER’S RASP 2 OUR WORN NERVE ENDS. OH U WR A PISTOL MAKE 0 MISTAKE. GOING 2 BED GORGEOUS, GETTING UP GORGEOUS, SHITTING, SHOWERING & SHAVING GORGEOUS, EATING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER GORGEOUS, WALKING THE HALLS GORGEOUS, TOSSING THE FOOTBALL GORGEOUS(LY), ALL OF IT JUST FUCKING GORGEOUS. (MOST PARTICULARLY THE LAST.)

OUR HABIT WAS 2 WATCH U CONSTANTLY @ A CERTAIN DISTANCE, LIKE THE BEST NATURE PROGRAM EVER TELECAST ON THE NATURE CHANNEL. O SKOOZLE! SKOOZLE! U HAD SUCH A BEAUTIFUL, FABULOUS, FINE HEAD ON YR SHOULDERS & ANOTHER CROWNING YR MAJESTIC MEMBER (THE WORD GLANS NEVER ENTERED YR VOCABULARY). GLORIOUS IT WAS 2 B ALIVE IN THOSE DAYS W U & 2 WATCH U B/ING YOUNG, THE VERY HEAVEN. WHEN WE SED U WR LIKE A BREATH OF SPRING WE DID NT COMMENT IDLY OR IN THE INANE MANNER OF REMARKING ON THE REFRESHING EFFECT OF AN AEROSOL AIR FRESHENER ON THE ROOM, 4 THERE WAS TH@ IN YR PERSONAL SCENT (ON ITS ACCOUNT THE PRINCIPAL, A LEARNED MAN VERSED IN M@TERS GREEK (HA-HA), DUBBED U HYAKINTHOS) TH@ MIXED W THE ODD WHIFF OF ABERCROMBIE COLOGNE STUNNED US FLAT. WE CD’VE STOOD BURNING DAYLIGHT LOOKING @ U FOREVER. W U @ HOME WH@ HOMEOWNER WD EVER HAVE NEED OF A HOME THEATER SYSTEM & SURROUND SOUND SETTINGS?

U CD NEVER BY N E STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION HAVE BN CALLED DEADPAN (“KEEP YOUR BAT IN YOUR BATBAG”). BECAUSE (IT SEEMED) U’D BN SPARED THE CURSE OF AN ACHING HEART MANY TOOK U 4 A MINDLESS PROPERTY DRAWN BY YR LOOKS 2 THE SOCIAL SCENE (ONLY 2 B SHOWN UP IN SHORT ORDER 4 THE FOOLS THEY WR). WHEN U PULLED A MUSCLE STRETCHING 4 A BALL, U GIGGLED. LORD OF THE FAKE-OUT DRIBBLE. TAKE YR PT GUARD EXRTNS & ROUTINES: IPSOS MORI SKOOZLE’S WAY. U DID NT DRIP FEED YR CAPTIVES.

4 INSTNCE AS @ 1ST LIGHT U RODE YR ENGLISH RACER CHIN 2 THE WIND ARND THE LAKE, WHICH AS SUMMER DREW NEAR BUSTLED W ACTIVITY, THE RIDE AN ADVENTURE @ EVERY TURN, YR UNRULY FLYING HAIR FANNED OUT IN FEATHERY CURLING ARCS (HOW LOVELY 2 HAVE HAD A HEAD OF HAIR U DIDN’T HAVE 2 FIGHT W OR GOD FORBID BUZZ CUT OR OTHERWISE FUCK UP W REBARBATIVE GLOP CAREFULLY STYLING IT 2 LOOK A MESS. ALONE AMONG YR GENERATION U DID 0THING 2 IT OTHER THAN WASH IT DAILY W ECO-FRIENDLY SHAMPOO & PUT A PART IN IT ON SUNDAYS. IT WAS YR HAIR & IT WAS JUST THERE).

FLORID OF COLORING, FREE AS A BIRD ON THE WING (& HOW U THRILLED 2 & REJOICED IN THE IMAGE THOSE WORDS EVOKED & GIGGLED LIKE THE SOCIALLY SHY BOY U WERE @ THE TERM METROSEXUAL), THE ROSY CHEEKED & PINK LIPPED (HOW U LOVED THOSE RASPBERRY POPSICLES FRM THE 7-11) ARCADIAN ARCHIGALLUS IN SPRUCED UP SKY BOY GUISE (HE 4 WHOM EVENTS DID NOT DICT8 RESULTS, BUT WERE THEMSELVES WHOLE UNTO THEMSELVES, CUM WHAT MAY), REVELING IN THE INTRICATE WORKINGS OF YR OWN FERTILE MIND IN THE AWESOME BEAUTY OF NATURE (4 YR EXTERNAL SENSATIONS WERE 0 LESS PRIVATE 2 YRSELF THAN WERE YR THOUGHTS & FEELINGS), AS ALSO WERE THE MANDATORY STRETCH & JUMPING JACKS ROUTINES IN THE TRAINING SESSION LEADING UP 2 THE SCHOOL TOURNAMENT, AFTER WHICH RIBALD BOYS IN AWE OF U WOULD JOKE IN THE SHOWERS TH@ U CD DO PUSHUPS W/OUT USING YR ARMS.

TH@ EXPRESSION “A HOLY SHOW.” IRONIC.

& AFTER SUCH EXERTIONS NEVER A TRACE OF A HAUGHTY GLANCE SUCH AS GIVEN IN THE SHOWER ROOM BY TH@ BONY BUTT COON ASS RANDOM DOUCHE BAG MORON, TH@ OBNOXIOUS WASTE OF SCRAWNY SKIN TRAVIS FOWLER, PITTED SKIN, SMALL MOUTH, EYES SET WIDE APART, WEARING TH@ FILTHY “WE BURN OUR OWN TRASH” SWEATSHIRT, AKA “TRAVESTY” & “DRAINPIPE” (“WILL SUMBODY DIG A DITCH SO DRAINPIPE CAN FALL IN IT?”), WHO TOOK SUCH WEIRD PRIDE IN HIS “I EAT HAIR PIE” TATTOO, HIS 2 CAULIFLOWER EARS, IN LIVING IN TH@ SHANTY SHACK DWN BY THE OLD FLAX FACTORY WHERE HE WAS DRUG UP LIKE A LITTLE THUG, PLANTING FACES IN THE SANDBOX UNTIL HE MET HIS M@CH IN SPUDS YOAKUM, CHAMPION OF THE UNDERDOG (A REAL CLASS ACT TH@ 1. ALWAYS WENT BY THE NAME COACH). STYLISH DUDE (RAY-BANS & STEEL-TOE WORK BOOTS), BIG ON B&E (HOUSES & VIRGIN ANUSES) & TRESPASS W FIREARM. BLANK EYES, THEIR EMPTINESS STRETCHING FAR IN2 THE DISTANCE, WHO ON THE 1ST DAY OF HIS TRIAL 4 MURDER IN THE 1ST DEGREE THREW UP ON THE BAILIFF. CURRENTLY DOING 20 2 LIFE UP IN JOLIET, TH@ IS IF HE HASN’T ALREADY GOTTEN THE SHIV AS A “SLEEPER,” A “SHORT EYES,” KNOWN MOLESTER OF PRE-ADOLESCENT BOYS & WOMEN OVER 80 (SOMETIMES IN TANDEM IF BUSTER HAPPENED 2 B OVER @ GRANDMA’S).

4 THE MIND OF THE GODS IS NT LITELY TURNED 2 REPENTANCE, YES, TRAVESTY. IN THE DERANGED LOOK OF HIS IDIOT MAGENTA FAUXHAWK DO, UNDER THE PATHETIC ILLUSION TH@ HIS PHYSIQUE, A WAY OFF FRM SPRING TRAINING, WAS A M@CH 4 DUKE NUKEM’S & IN HIS TRULY FRIGHTENING CONVICTIONS SURROUNDING WHAT HE CLEARLY CONSIDERED HIS DEVASTATING SEX APPEAL, GIVING EVRY LIVING THING ON SITE THE STINK EYE, LEERING LIKE A HOUND DOG 2 REVEAL THE HIDEOUS YELLOWING FAMILY SPITBACK DENTURES, IN DOFFING HIS BARFO SKID-MARKED PIKACHU BOXERS 2 LET HIS NASTY LITTLE UNCUT JOHNSON SAY HELLO 2 THE WORLD & IN DISPLAYING HIS FULL BODY ACNE IN THE LOCKER ROOM MIRROR & LOOKING LIKE HE GOT HIS BESPOKE WARDROBE @ THE FEED STORE (& THE RED, WHITE & BLUE JEANS DIDN’T CUT IT EITHER), “TRAVESTY” “DRAINPIPE” FOWLER DE-EXCELLED IN EVERY SALIENT PARTICULAR PERTAINING 2 THE HEALTHY GROWING TEENAGE MALE, INDEED PROCLAIMING HIMSELF A GROWER NOT A SHOWER, ALTHO GLAD 2 SAY 0 INVITATION 2 VIEW THE EVIDENCE WAS EVR PROFFERED (NOR 2 SPEAK TRULY WAS THE MOOT POINT EVER MUCH MOOTED).

& WHAT ON EARTH WAS GOING ON W TH@ EEL SPEAR HE CARRIED AROUND LIKE A HALBERD?

U SURE SENT HIM PACKING, RUNNING BACK (HE-HE), 2 HIS LOCKER W THOSE 4THRIGHT REMARKS, SO SHOCKING 2 HEAR ABOUT SINCE 2 THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE U HD NVR SO TARGETED ANOTHER LIVING SOUL (“TIME YOU WEREN’T HERE, TRAV, YOU’RE BOTHERSOME. YOUR MIND IS OBVIOUSLY MAKING A USELESS FINGERTIP SEARCH OF THE ENTIRE AREA. WHAT YOU NEED IS A NEW HOBBY — PHONE BONING MIGHT DO. STALKING ME TO SEE ME BECOME MORE AWESOME EVERY DAY, REVERED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNOW ME, IS GETTING ON YOUR NERVES — SO MUCH SO YOU CAN’T KEEP ON A DRY PAIR OF SNAP-CROTCH SHORTALLS FOR AN HOUR WITHOUT WETTING YOURSELF LIKE YOU DID TILL YOU WERE FOURTEEN. PLUS YOU SMELL LIKE A DEAD PERSON, WHICH IS STRANGE WHAT WITH YOU ALWAYS HANGING AROUND THE SHOWERS — COME TO THINK OF IT, THOUGH, WHO’S EVER SEEN YOU UNDER THE NOZZLE, OR WITH YOUR HAIR WET?”), SO CLEVERLY CALCULATED 2 SCOTCH THE BASELINE ATTITUDES OF 1 AMONG MEN-E UNCHALLENGED COCKSURE ZEROES DESTINED 4 ENDS 2 SORRY 2 CONTEMPLATE.

HOW BEST 2 PUT IT? AS COFFEE BEAN & CARAMEL SNUGGLE, THEIR BOLD AROMA & NATURAL SWEETNESS ENTWINED, SO DID THE HEAVEN SCENTED EVIDENCE OF YR HISTORICAL RELEVANCE SEEP IN2 SO MANY STIFFLY STARCHED WHITE LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS LAID FLAT IN YR BEDROOM DRESSER’S BOTTOM DRAWER & PROCLAIM THE BOY TH@ WAS SKOOZLE THE ETERNAL BOY MAN W THE EYES 2 DRAW 1 IN 4EVER.

& HOW EARNESTLY DID YR PEERS TAKE STOCK OF YR PROFESSIONS, OF YR EVER SIMMERING LUST 4 LIFE, A LIFE CROWDED W INCIDENT, AS MADE MANIFEST IN YR SWEET RENDITIONS OF EVERY SONG EVER RECORDED BY SHINEDOWN, IN PARTICULAR OF “SECOND CHANCE,” LEADING 2 WIDESPREAD SPECULATION ON THE QUESTION WHAT & WHEN CAME 1ST? AS THE PRINCIPAL HIMSELF PUT IT, “THAT YOUNG MAN IS CONDUCIVE — CONDUCIVE AND INTRINSIC. THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST SUSPICION IN HIM OF ANYTHING IMPORTED FROM ELSEWHERE, NOR SO LONG AS WE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT WILL ANYTHING IN HIM BE OUTSOURCED." IT WAS A SPY THRILLER, ALL OF IT, & U THE ONLY NEED 2 KNOW.

“A CASE IN POINT. MUCH OF THE FRUSTRATION FELT WITH THE RAWLS-INSPIRED METHODOLOGICAL PARADIGM IN THEORIZING ABOUT JUSTICE STEMS FROM ITS PERCEIVED INABILITY TO DELIVER PRINCIPLES CAPABLE OF GUIDING ACTION IN REAL-WORLD CIRCUMSTANCES.”

(DONTCHA KNOW.)

“YET WITHIN THE AREA OF HIS INFLUENCE THAT BOY’S RAWLSIAN FOCUS ON THE IDEAL SOCIETY SEEMS TO CARRY THE DAY EVERY TIME, DEFINITELY ORIENTING ACTIONS IN REAL TIME AND PLACE EVEN WHILE IN REPOSE. IT’S NO GOOD TRYING TO THROW THE SADDLE OFF THE IDEA OF HEGEMONIC STRUCTURES AND ALL THE REST OF IT — ALL A LOAD OF OLD BALLS ANYWAY — ON A WILD HORSE OF SUCH PASSIONATE, EXPLOSIVE, AND CONSUMING CHARISMA: PEGASUS & BELLEROPHON IN ONE.” (O WHAT A FATAL IDENTIFICATION: UNE PARABOLE EVANGELIQUE TERRIBLE ET PROVIDIENTELLE. WH@ CN THE NELLY OLD BUZZARD HAVE BEEN THINKING OF? WAS THERE SUMTHING PRESCIENT W/IN HIS OVERALL LAVENDER DREAMSCAPE TH@ CD NT B HELD IN CHECK? GOD SAVE US FRM THE EFFUSIONS OF CELIBATE HOMOSEXUALS W DESPERATE CRUSHES ON POWERFUL & ASSERTIVE YNG MEN & HABITUALLY BLOTTO IN2 THE BARGAIN.

U LOVED & DREW STRENGTH FRM THE SOLEMN SOLITUDE OF EVENING, EXPECTING ALWAYS 2 C A RAINBOW OVER THE LANDSCAPE. YR CURIOSITY NEVER GOT THE BETTER OF YOU; YOU LIVED IN YR FAITH AS SERENELY AS ANY TRAPPIST MONK (@ ANY RATE OF THE TYPE AS WAS UNIVERSALLY IMAGINED UNTIL THOSE REVELATIONS CONCERNING THE BLUEGRASS FROLICS, PAVANNES, SARABANDS & INTRIGUES DOWN THERE IN OLD KENTUCKY). “CONDUCIVE, INTRINSIC, SULTRY, SIMPLE, AND FREE, AND POSSESSED OF THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE, THE KNOWLEDGE TO COME DOWN WHERE HE OUGHT TO BE, TO ABIDE WITH US, TO MAKE OF OUR VALE OF TEARS A VALLEY OF DELIGHT

“AND ELIGIBLE, ELIGIBLE FOR CERTAIN PRIZES. YES, THERE WAS INTRINSIC, CONDUCIVE, AND ELIGIBLE MERIT THERE IN HIGH DEGREE AND NO LITTLE MYSTERY BESIDES — DID YOU KNOW HIS CLASSMATES CALLED HIM SILENT NINJA AND DAWG?

“THAT WHICH WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO SEEK WE MAY NOT FIND — AND DON’T SAY IT WASN’T ALL THAT LONG AGO THAT WE WERE HIS AGE, BECAUSE IT WAS AEONS AGO, IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.

“WE MIGHT AS WELL CALL TWO SPADES A PAIR AND ADMIT OUR FUTILE LUSTING AFTER THE SUGAR BOWL — TWO OLD BLUE-TAIL FLIES WITH WIZENED FACES CIRCLING THE RIM, BARELY ALLOWING OUR SECRET SELVES A SNIFF. LET’S FACE IT, DEAR, WHEN THE CONTENTS OF ONE’S DIARY CONSIST MAINLY OF THE RECORD OF THE NETFLIX ONE HAS BEEN ORDERING AND WATCHING, ONE HAS ONE HAS REACHED A CERTAIN, SHALL WE SAY, STAGE …

“AH, THE COMEDY, THE DRAMA, THE CHILLS, THE THRILLS — AND IN THE END THE TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE SHOCK AND HORROR — WERE NEVER AGAIN TO BE THE SAME. AND THE PHANTOM ECHO OF ONE PERFECT BOY’S SILENT FOOTFALLS WOULD WE KNEW BE WITH US UNTIL OWN LIVES ENDED: THE LEGACY OF SKOOZLE AND ITS PRICE ALL IN ONE, COMMENSURATE, IDENTICAL.”

(WHAT A STITCH THE OLD QUEEN CAN BE WHEN IN THE EVENING AFTER A FEW “GIN & ITS” SHE DECIDES TO WAX POETICAL. PHANTOM ECHO/SILENT FOOTFALLS. OH, MARY!)

“HE WAS OF COURSE UN PEU FAROUCHE ET BAIGNÉ DANS D’INNOMBRABLES VOLUPTÉS — BUT EVEN SO WE WERE STUNNED SENSELESS THAT ONE TIME WHEN, THE BEAST WITHIN UNLEASHED, PAST REASON HUNTED, HE WENT PSYCHO ON THE PUNCHING BAG, NOSTRILS FLARING LIKE A FRANTIC STALLION, THE VEINS IN HIS TEMPLES EXPLOSIVO, HIS EYES WEEPING SAPPHIRE TEARS — IT WAS SHOCKING, TERRIBLE. BOX 1 TO BOX 3 OVERNIGHT. WE HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF HIM AS UNSCREWING THE LID TO INDULGE IN DEEP THOUGHT REGARDING THE STATE OF HIS EMOTIONS, OF BEING RUBBED RAW, OF BEING FLAILED BY THEM, IN FACT OF SO MUCH AS NOTING THEM. THEREFORE SOME SUDDEN AND UNFORESEEN ATTACK OF BROODING MUST HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF THE ERUPTION.

“WE WERE SICK WITH WORRY — MADNESS IN DIVINE ONES MUST NOT UNTREATED GO — AND ONE THING WAS CERTAIN, NO CHURL COULD EVER HAVE BEGAT SUCH A BOY. IF HE HADN’T IN FACT COME FROM THE PLANET KRYPTON HE WAS SOMETHING OTHER, SOMETHING EVOLVED BEYOND OUR KEN. I SHALL NEVER FORGET THE EXQUISITE GESTURE OF HIS WIPING HIS THUMB AND FOREFINGER ACROSS HIS LIPS WHEN HE TOOK A SIP OF POP.

“WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY THEY FIRST DRIVE ROUND THE BEND IN RED PICKUPS. REMEMBER NIJINSKY, REMEMBER BRANDO. WHEN SUDDENLY OUR BOY WAS SEEN BREAKFASTING ALONE AT THE CRACKER BARREL AND HAD STOPPED KNOCKING FISTS WITH HIS PALS, WAS IN FACT AVOIDING ALL EYE CONTACT. SKOOZLE AVOIDING EYE CONTACT? SKOOZLE GONE TO GROUND? AND NO AURAL REFLECTIONS EVIDENT, EITHER — ONLY MUMBLES IN THE FLAT TONES OF A LONG-TERM ASYLUM INMATE.

“ONE COULD TELL — A WHIFF OF SOMETHING LETHAL EMANATING FROM THE CAULDRON. THE DOGS IN THE STREET FELL INTO DEPRESSIVE, MOODY STATES, SUSPECTING AS DOGS WILL THAT BAD THINGS WERE AFOOT UNDER CLOUDY SKIES. THAT THEIR HERO THE ALPHA MALE MIGHT BE DRIVEN TO DO SOMETHING DRASTIC LIKE JOIN THE ARMED FORCES AND BE SENT TO SOME GODFORSAKEN DESERT TO BE KILLED OR MAIMED FOR NOTHING, OR GO DOWN TO THE GULF AND SIGN UP FOR WORK ON AN OIL RIG OR OTHERWISE COMMIT TO HEAVY LIFTING AND BACK-BREAKING LABOR IN THE BROILING SUN, COARSENING THE BODY & DULLING THE MIND BOTH AT ONCE, WHEN AFTER ALL A THIRTY-EIGHT-INCH CHEST AND SIXTEEN-INCH BICEPS OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN ENOUGH FOR ANYBODY.

“BUT WHATEVER IT WAS THAT HAD FROSTED HIM — WE WERE NEVER TO KNOW — HIS FURY WAS SEEN TO DISSIPATE QUICKLY, AND FINALLY EVANESCE, LIKE A TWISTER OUT ON THE PRAIRIE SUDDENLY VANISH, WHICH WAS STRANGE. YOU DON’T PUT A YOUNG LION ON HIS BACK FEET AND NOT EXPECT A LUNGE, BUT IN THIS CASE THE CAT SAT BACK ON HIS HAUNCHES BEFORE SEEMINGLY SPRINGING AT NOTHING AT ALL, THEN WENT GONZO POSTAL BALLISTIC IN WILD DISPLAYS OF ROUNDHOUSE SCISSOR KICKING MATCHED WITH EXPLOSIONS OF SAVAGE BANZAI EXPLETIVES SUDDENLY DISSOLVING INTO THE SOFT STRAINS OF THE KOTO. AND THEN THE STRANGEST SILENT DECLARATION OF COLD FINALITY WE EVER HAD NOT HEARD IN OUR LIVES — AND WHO ON EARTH WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT BOY CAPABLE OF COLD FINALITY — WHEREUPON OUR SUNNY SKOOZLE HAD ADJUSTED HIS CUP AND WAS BACK WITH US UNALTERED AND UNHARMED, AND THAT WITHOUT BENEFIT OF ASPERGILLUM OR INCENSE OR THE ADOPTION OF SOME OUTRE LIFESTYLE CHOICE SUCH AS VIPASSANA MEDITATION.”

OR NASTY SKUNK WEED EITHER AS PURVEYED BY TH@ AFOREMENTIONED WRETCH TRAVIS FOWLER, WHO AS THE SAYING WENT JUST KEPT ON GETTING FOWLER AND FOWLER. RESTORED WERE ALL SUCH QUALITIES TH@ MADE EACH HOUR SPENT W U IN THE LAND B/YOND TIME A RESPITE FAR 2 SHORT, ALL SUCH GESTURES AS WERE YRS & PERTAINED 2 U ALONE (L’AUDACE, TOUJOURS L’AUDACE!) MAY B SEEN AS THE POLAR OPPOSITE OF THE VERTIGINOUS GYRATIONS OF THOSE EFFEMINATE PRIESTS, THOSE SHRIEKING UNSEXED BEINGS WHO IN THE TIME OF AUGUSTINE SWANNED AROUND THE STREETS OF CARTHAGE W WHITENED FACES, SCENTED HAIR & MINCING GAIT 2 B KNOCKED DOWN 2 THE HIGHEST BIDDER. WE TOOK THE GREATEST PLEASURE IN IMAGINING 4 U A BRILLIANT CAREER IN MIXED USE RETAIL RIGHT HERE IN TOWN, WHERE WE COULD CONTINUE TO WATCH U FLOURISH WHILE YOU, OUT OF THE CORNER OF YR KINDLY EYE, COULD WATCH US GROW DECREPIT.

THERE WAS 0 NEED 4 U 2 GO & FENG SHUI ALL YR SHOES TOE 2 HEEL IN THE DIRECTION OF THE FRONT DOOR IN ORDER 2 SHIFT YR ENERGIES IN A DIRECTION ALIGNED W AMBITIOUS PERSONAL AGENDAS. & AS 2 CLOTHING, HOW IT WAS TH@ EVERY EXACTLY RIGHT PLACE NU IT WAS THERE 2 B CLUNG 2 IS ONE OF THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS, THE PROPOSED ANSWER 2 WHICH, ARGUED BY YR PERFECT BODY, OUR HIGH HEARTS CONSENTED 2 ACCEPT 4THWITH. & 0 NEED EITHER 4 U 2 B REACHING OUT 4 THE GOLDEN RING ON THE MERRY-GO-ROUND. THE MERRY GOLDEN RINGLETS OF YOUR STUNNING CHEVELURE — A VERITABLE GOLDEN FLEECE SUCH AS A JASON (SO MANY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS R CALLED TH@ NOWADAYS) MIGHT HAVE SAILED FORTH 2 COLCHIS W THE ARGONAUTS 2 SEEK SUFFICED.

U WERE AN EASY RIB, BUT U WERE SURELY NO PATSY LOUNGING THERE UNDER THE SYCAMORE WHOLLY @ EASE, UNWITTING OBJECT OF OUR ABSINTHE DREAMS — OR WAS IT MOLLY — IN WHICH WE HELD U FAST IN A SNUG HUG & THEN U SPREAD YR LEGS 4 US 2 TOUCH & TASTE & B HELD THERE. U GASPED, WE GASPED & OUR EYES BURNED BLOODSHOT FROM ALL THE TEARS. FOLIE!

WE’LL NT MEET AGAIN
ANYWHERE ANY WHEN.

OF THE 1000 NATURAL SHOCKS TH@ FLESH IS HEIR 2 THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY HD UNQUESTIONABLY PASSED U BY, INCLUDING TH@ OF RECOGNITION (THE NATION IS BURDENED, SO WERE NOT U). YR FAULTLESS MOVES WERE MADE ON WEIGHTLESS ACTION & REACTION, NT ON BURDENSOME SPECULATION. 0 IN YR RELATIONSHIP EITHER W YRSELF OR W THE WORLD COULD POSSIBLY B CALLED TEMPESTUOUS, OR EVEN TROUBLESUM.

BUT WHAT OF IT? DID U REALLY NEED 2 KNOW SUCH THINGS AS THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE PLANET EARTH, THE DIFFERENCE B’TWN A SCALENE & AN ISOSCELES TRIANGLE? ABOUT TRIGONOMETRIC PROTRACTORS OR THE CIVIL WAR, PI & MITOSIS OR THE MEANING OF THE WORD EROGENOUS? & OTHER SUCH RIVETING SUBJECTS DISCUSSED DAILY ON THE Á LA CARTE LINE @ LUNCH? WE THOUGHT NOT. IT WAS U IN U AS U WE CHERISHED, U IN YR GLORIOUSLY UNSELFCONSCIOUS SELF INVOLVEMENT & ITS DEFT & MESMERIZING NEGOTIATION (INCLUDING THE METICULOUS NT 2 SAY FANATICAL CARE U TOOK OVER YR GROOMING & 2 B SURE OF YR EXTENSIVE (& XPENSIVE) WARDROBE, ON 0 SINGLE ITEM OF WHICH, EXCLUSIVE OF YR MANY PAIRS OF STONE WASHED STEEL-BUTTON-FLY LEVIS & MULTICOLORED JOE BOXERS, MIGHT A SINGLE DESIGNER/MANUFACTURER’S LABEL B SEEN.

& HOW U DID LOVE FINE TAILORING (ALWAYS A THIN BILLFOLD SO AS NOT TO RUIN THE LINE) & A REALLY GOOD PAIR OF SHOES WHEN U SKIPPED OFF TO TOWN. IT WAS U WHO WERE 2 B RECOGNIZED, WHO WERE 2 B CHERISHED & REVERED, NT US OR THEM. & WHAT A RELIEF WHEN WE CUM 2 THINK OF IT 2 KNOW TH@ 0 NEGOTIATIONS TWIXT US I/THR WAY WOULD EVER B REQUIRED 2 B HELD ON A NEED 2 KNOW BASIS.

U 2 WERE 1 WELL ACQUAINTED W THE NIGHT, W DARK THINGS & THINGS TH@ WENT BUMP TH@ WEREN’T BUMPER CARS & W WHAT YOU ONCE WROTE IN A LETTER 2 US FROM BIBLE CAMP AS “THE THROWS OF PASSION.”

U WR A DOCUMENTED AWESUM SQUIB @ BIBLE CAMP, MAGISTERIAL YET NVR VAIN OF YR SKILLS & ALMOST 2 D/LICIOUS 2 TASTE WHEN, AFTER THE HECTIC DIURNAL ACTIVITIES: THE FAST PITCH PRACTICE, THE WIFFLE BALL, POOL FRISBEE & BLIND TAG, THE ARM WRESTLING & THE CHICKEN FIGHTS FOLLOWING REVEREND HONEYSUCKLE’S MASS BAPTISM DOWN @ THE SWIMMING HOLE & BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON ON THE NIGHT TH@ FOLLOWED AS IT MUST THE DAY — THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS AS IT SO HAPPENED — FOLLOWING THE TOASTING OF THE FRANKS & THE TATER TOTS & THE MARSHMALLOWS AROUND THE CAMPFIRE, W MANLY HANDS LAID ON BOYISH SHOULDERS U SUDDENLY BECAME TH@ OVER-THE-ROAD-TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVER, TH@ 1-MAN STREETCAR TURNAROUND, TH@ SLEEK LINED OFF-ROAD TRANSAXLE IMPALA W JEEP TIRES OF RITE OF PASSAGE RIGORS (LES PLANS SEXE DIRECTIFS & AUTORITAIRES AVEC DE JEUNES GENS VIRILS) W THOSE WANTON BUDDY-SLEEVE GYRATIONS AND THE CAMPFIRE AS YR HUSKY INTONATION OF THE 23RD PSALM & THE SONG OF SOLOMON, THE SONG OF RUMI & TH@ UNCANNY RE-CREATION OF CHET BAKER’S RENDITIONS OF “MY FUNNY VALENTINE” & “I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY” FILLED THE STILL NITE AIR.

WHILE U & YR ENRAPTURED ACOLYTES, MANY BOYS 2GETHER CLINGING, LIKE JACKRABBITS IN THE SEARCHLIGHTS — 4 2 THEM U WERE THE BOUNDER OF TALL BUILDINGS W A HERO’S HEART — NT QUITE PASSING OUT BUT THEIR MINDS UNABLE 2 FOCUS ON N E THING SPECIFIC (A MERCY) DID BLASPHEMY & SACRILEGE ENACTING FEARLESS WANTON WITCHES’ SABBATH CEREMONIES.

OR TIMES OF OLD WHEN U DID MAGICIAN TRICKS @ CHILDREN’S PARTIES. ROCK SOLID CRED THEN & EVERMORE EVEN AFTER TH@ 1 MEMORABLE TIME YOU DYED W COAL DUST THE FAROUCHE FOLD OF YR FAIR HAIR BLACK LIKE ELVIS & CAME 2 THE HALLOWEEN PARTY DRESSED GOTH W TH@ HAIR ALL GUNKED UP & COMBED IN2 A POMPADOUR. 2 TERRIFYING. THEY HOWLED & WEPT UNTIL U WENT UPSTAIRS 2 SHOWER & CAME BACK DOWN THEIR GOLDEN BOY ONCE MORE & SANG EVERY ONE OF THE 69 LOVE SONGS BY MAGNETIC FIELDS.

WE WERE NEVER GOING 2 CUM UPON U STOMPIN’ @ THE SAVOY THUNDERIN’ OUT IN THE VOICE OF DOOM 2 A WORLD SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL THE MANY PROHIBITIONS ENUMERATED IN LEVITICUS, FUCKING NEVER. 4 HOW WELL U UNDERSTOOD TH@ THE FLIM-FLAM WHICH THE REVEREND HONEYSUCKLE & HIS BUTT PIRATE BACKDOOR SLIDER PREACHER KIND DID PROMOTE & BY DINT OF WHICH THEY SOUGHT TO GAIN POWER OVER THE PEOPLE WERE 2 DEEPLY OPPOSED NT ONLY 2 THE INSTINCTS & FRAILTIES OF THE NOBLE RACE OF MAN (& 2 THE YOUNG BOYS IN YOUR CHARGE SO NEEDY 2 B LOVED, RESIDUES ALL OF FAMILY UPHEAVALS (NOT 2 MENTION ESCAPEES, IN MANY CASES NARROW, FROM WIPEOUT DOMESTIC SHOOTINGS), WHOSE SLIPPERY ESSENCES DID NIGHTLY STARCH THE SHEETS & 2 WHOM WHEN THEY DISPLAYED THEIR PROWESS U WD SAY “COOLNESS” & “NICE GUNS” & “BAZOOKA” & “PWNAGE!”) BUT 2 THE VERY PROPAGATION OF TH@ WARLIKE RACE BY HETEROSEXUALS, BLESS THEIR HEARTS, EVER 2 B CARRIED OUT BY MORE THAN A SMALL MINORITY OF DESOLATE GRASPING FOOLS.

O HERMOSA CREATURA! A STRANGER HAPPENING BY & NT KNOWING U FOR WHAT U R. THE CROWN PRINCE OF THE HASTY HEART MIGHT WONDER @ YR STOIC PATIENCE AFTER BIKING AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD 2 C HU MIGHT BE OUT & ABOUT & UP 2 A LITTLE KID MISCHIEF KIND OF DEAL (NT OF THE KIND OF TH@ SHITHEAD TRAVIS FOWLER, HIS THIN WATERY BLOOD FLOWED DOWN 2 THE FLACCID LOWER APPENDAGE, TRYING 2 GET 8, 9, 10 & 11 YEAR OLDS 2 “STAB THE CAT TEN TIMES.” WHAT A LOSER — THE 1 TIME HE WENT 4 U U READ THE SIGNAL SO INSTANTLY U COULD’VE GOT OUT 4 A COUPLE OF STRAIGHT JACKS & STILL HAD AMPLE TIME 2 FLATTEN THE CREEP).

BUT OF COURSE STRONG DRINK NEVER HAD NOR EVER WD PASS YR LUSCIOUS RUBY LIPS.

ONLY 2 BE AMBUSHED BY DOZENS OF HOWLING BUTTON-NOSED BOYS DROPPING LIKE MONKEYS OUT OF THE TREES, SWARMED BY SO MANY HUNGRY-HEARTED SOULS IN TH@ SCALDING RESERVOIR OF SHARED NEED REPLETE W SECRECY & OATHS CALLED BOYHOOD, ALL CLAMORING 2 SHOW U WHO HAD COME OUT WINNER IN THE LATEST PISSING CONTEST & THEN HOW KEWL IT WAS WHEN IN THE BOY PLAY RITE SANCTIFIED OVER MILLENNIA, WHEN THEIR URINE STREAMS MADE ARCS TH@ CROSSED EVERY WHICH WAY. BUT THE STRANGER WOULDN’T KNOW HOW MUCH U LOVED B/ING LOVED, HOW U LOVED B/ING LOVED, HOW U LOVED GIVING EACH BOY YR TRADEMARK SKULL KNUCKLE SCRUB SAYING, “THROW STRIKES, MEN, NICE AND EASY AND STAY WITHIN YOURSELVES. HOME PLATE DOESN’T MOVE AND BENCH PLAYERS ARE HANDY BUT NOT INTRINSIC. HEADS UP, GET WITH THE PROGRAM, OUR GOODLY GREAVED COMPANIONS ARE ALREADY AT THEIR OARS.”

TAKES A LONG TIME 4 A TENT FULL OF BOYS 2 FALL ASLEEP WHEN THEY’VE JUST BEEN TAUGHT HOW 2 ESKIMO KISS. HOW LONGINGLY THEY ANTICIP8TED THEIR OUTINGS W U 2 ROLLER HEAVEN (“LOOK SHARP, BOARD THE ACTIVITY BUS. WE GOT US SOME WHEELS!”) & YR PETTING ZOO TICKLING SESSIONS OUT ON THE PLAYING FIELD & THE TINGLES OF FORMERLY UNBEKNOWNST PLEASURE THEY OCCASIONED. HOW U CD MAKE THEM GIGGLE LIKE JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRLS & ROLL ALL OVER THE PLACE THEN CRY UNCLE & BEG 4 MERCY (“SURRENDER! SURRENDER! DON’T WANNA DIE!”).

& HOW THEY’D GROW PROFLIGATE, PROFLIGATE & BOLD AS BRASS, RUNNING THEIR LITTLE KID H&S ALL OVER YR MAGNIFICENT BODY HEAD 2 POINTED RATTLESKIN-BOOTED TOE (4 OF SUCH A STUNNING SPECIMEN OF MANHOOD THEY HAD KNOWN 0THING, @ LEAST NT IN A H&S-ON WAY, CERTAINLY NT BY CLOSE OBSERVATION OF THEIR FATHERS, BROTHERS, OR OTHER KINFOLK OF THE MALE PERSUASION). OPENING YR SHIRT 2 MASSAGE YR ABDOMINALS & FINGER YR PECTORALS IN TINGLING SINUSOIDAL WAVE PATTERNS, CRISS-CROSSING, CIRCLING, PERHAPS TORMENTING (U NEVER WD SAY) WHILE U PLAYED GULLIVER & SLEEPING DRAGON & NEVER RAISED A HAIR. HOW THEY’D SIT ON YR FACE & STILL NT MAKE U SURRENDER & THEN WHEN THE FUN WAS OVER & U TOOK THE WHOLE RAGGLE TAGGLE BUNCH 4 DIM SUM (BEST BIB & TUCKER) @ TH@ NICE CHINESE RESTAURANT IN TOWN (UNLIMITED PRAWN CRACKERS ON THE HOUSE), TH@ WAS CLASS, TH@ WAS CARING, SHARING, LOVING, GIVING. TH@ WAS DEFINITIVE SKOOZLE & THEY LIVED CONTENTED & WARMED IN YR THRALL.

THE TRUTH WAS PLAIN 4 ALL 2 C. U LOVED YR PUBLIC & YR PUBLIC LOVED U: U UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER VERY WELL & YR MESSAGE 2 THE WORLD COULD NT B CLEARER, TH@ N E UNDERSTANDING OF A SUBJECT MATTER IS NT BETTER SIMPLY IF IT IS MORE OBJECTIVE. 4 THEM IN SUMMERTIME THERE WAS 0 WORLD, 0 SUBJECT MATTER 2 B STUDIED OUTSIDE THE GATHERING & THE SESSION OF THE ELECTED CATECHUMENS OF SKOOZLE’S MAGIC CIRCLE.

4 TRULY WERE WE LED W GUSTO IN TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION & THRU US IN EVRY PLACE CAME THE FRAGRANCE FRM KNOWING U. & NOW 2 US THE WORLD STINKS 2 HIGH HEAVEN & ALWAYS & 4EVER SHALL.

& WHO WILL EVER 4GET THE END OF TH@ SAME SUMMER, WHEN IN THE COURSE OF YR PRIVATE NEGOTIATIONS W THE AFOREMENTIONED (PORTLY) REVEREND HONEYSUCKLE — YR RELENTLESS SEARCHES THROUGH HIS LIBRARY CONTAINING MEN-Y A QUAINT & CURIOUS VOLUME OF 4GOTTN LORE — U HAPPENED UPON (BONANZA!) HIS COLLECTION OF DISTINCTLY “HIGH” UNLAUNDERED ANDREW CHRISTIAN MESH TRAINING SHORTS, EACH PAIR CONCEALING ANOTHER OF THE DOZENS OF ACCOUNTS OF THE ROMAN LEGIONS’ WHOLESALE EMBRACE OF THE MITHRAIC CULTS OF ASIA MINOR IN THE REVEREND’S POSSESSION, WHICH QUICKLY ENGENDERED A CONCOMITANT PASSION IN U, 1 U TOOK UP WITH THE ZEAL OF THE SNAKE HANDLERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN REGIONS, 1 TH@ CARRIED U THRU 2 XMAS & THE BIRTH OF THE NEW YEAR RIGHT UP 2 YR OWN PRIVATE EPIPHANY — THE 1ST OF MANY SUCH, YOUR BLAZING EYES THE = OF ANY YULETIDE LIGHT DISPLAY 2 GRACE THE LENGTH OF N E MAIN STREET OR CIVIC CENTER IN N E TOWN IN THE U.S. OF A.

JUST LOOK @ HIM WE SAID (SAID, & DID W GIFT OF GLEE: 4 YR ANTICS WD MAKE A CAT LAUGH), AS W A CERTAIN DELICACY U FIDDLED WHISPERED MUSIC ON OUR HEARTSTRINGS (& WE MADE ANSWER W OUR OWN BRASS BAND AS WE WELCOMED U 2 YR FUTURE). PERFECT BODY — ARMS, LEGS, TORSO & WHAT THE BOYS WHO LOVED U SO DID LUSTILY CALL YOUR GUY RACK — PERFECT FACE, PERFECT SMILE (NO INSIPID GOOFY GRINS 4 U, 0THING REMOTELY LOPSIDED) & FLASHING TEETH W MUCH MORE OF CONSEQUENCE HIDDEN FROM VIEW (IN PARTICULAR THE GOLDEN TREASURE TRAIL, A TONGUE OF PALE FIRE WINDING DOWN THRU THE RIPPLED WEAVE OF ABDOMINALS, THE PERFECT PULSING PELVIC GROOVE, TO WHAT IS SO RUDELY TERMED BY YR GENERATION YR JUNK: YR GOOSE EGG HANGERS & LORDLY MANRAMMER SPEAR OF JOY).

SALIVA IS NEVER SUFFICIENT. HOW WE DID WRITHE IN THE NIGHT, LA NUIT EMBAUMEE COMME DES PARFUMS ET D’ENCENS PAR LA MEMOIRE DE TON ODEUR DANS LES NARINES DE TES IDOLATRES, IN DESPERATE JOY, DANS UNE EXTASE IMMOBILE, IMAGINING KISSING U FROM THE TOP OF YR HEAD DOWN 2 THE EQUATORIAL REGIONS 2 YR VERY PRIVATE PARTS & FURTHER SOUTH UNDER CAPRICORN IN EVER MOUNTING ECSTASY, EVERY QUICKENED BREATH U HUFF N/OTHER SWEET SPRING ZEPHYR. YES, WE WRESTLED W U IN OUR DREAMS (“GATHER UP, TAKE A KNEE!”) LIKE JACOB W THE ANGEL OF THE LORD ON THE STAIRWAY 2 PARADISE. HAD U MIRRORS ON YR CEILING & YR WALLS, WE ASKED? IF NT MIGHT WE @ YR CONVENIENCE CUM 2 YR DWELLING & IN ALL HUMILITY INSTALL THEM 4 U — FREE OF CHARGE? & SO WE DID & U WERE WELL PLEASED.

& HOW HAPPILY YR FRESH HOUSE CLEANING CO. CLIENTELE SPOKE OF U & OF YR SERVICES, MANY & VARIOUS & 2 THE BETTERMENT OF ALL. HOW U WOULD GO ABOUT YR WORK W THE RADIO TUNED 2 THE BIRDSONG STATION, SO TH@ EVEN MEN UNBORN SHOULD CUM 2 PRAISE U & SPEAK W TENDERNESS & SUCH DEEP SORROW WHEN REMEMBRANCE WAS MADE OF YR LEGENDARY CUCKOO & WHIPPOORWILL CALLS.

U WERE NT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE. 4 1 THING, WHO AROUND THESE PARTS EVER USED THE WORD BOFFIN 2 DESCRIBE ANYBODY (NOR CD ANY OF THE OTHERS EVER KNOW WHAT U MEANT BY IT. WE CD OF COURSE & DID BUT STILL WONDERED HOW U’D COME BY IT). 4 ANOTHER, 0 STORIES OF PROM NITES ENDING UP IN THE BACK SEATS OF PICKUP TRUCKS, HEELS OVER HEAD, PRE/10/DING LOVE. 0BODY EVER ONCE HEARD U SAY “SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN.” U HAD 0 PLANS, IT ALL JUST CAME 2 U.

NEITHER WAS IT POSSIBLE, INDEED IT WD’VE BEEN AN AFFRONT 2 NATURE, 2 IMAGINE U EVER HAVING 2 GRIND OUT PRODUCT OF N E KIND OR DESCRIPTION. U NEVR THOUGHT U MIGHT B INVITING PROBLEMS BY ROLL TIDE REVELING IN HOW 1/DERFUL LIFE WAS OR TH@ YR GLORYING IN YR VERY BEING MIGHT B PRELUDE 2 A FALL. HOW U LOVED 2 PLAN BIKE TRIPS ON COUNTRY ROADS. U WERE SO GRAND @ THE GAME.

0BDY CD IMAGINE MODESTY B/ING ENFORCED UPON U DURING YR RUMORED UPBRINGING (AMONG REFINED FOLKS IN A FAR FLUNG PLACE CALLED FERNDALE) OR TH@ YR PET NAME HAD BEEN MUNCH, TH@ U’D HAD A GERMAN SHEPHERD CALLED HUNDING, OR TH@ U’D EVER XPERIENCED THE INTOXICATING & HYPNOTIC SMELLS & BELLS OF A HIGH CHURCH BOYHOOD, HAD BEEN IMMERSED IN SUCH FELICITY EACH TIME U CLIMBED SURREPTITIOUSLY — OR SO YOU THOUGHT 4 THE LONGEST TIME — 2 LISTEN AS THE QUICK FINGERED, LONG LEGGED CHOIRMASTER PLAYED BACH FUGUES & WIDOR TOCCATAS, MAD THINGS BY MESSIAEN, SOUSA MARCHES & SHOW TUNES FROM THE 1950S ON THE MAGNIFICENT ORGAN W THE SHINING SILVER PIPES & ALSO EXPERIENCE SENSUAL ILLICIT TORRID KISS-CUDDLE SEX.

TH@ U HAD TAKEN UP FENCING & SKEET SHOOTING, RIDDEN SHETLAND PONIES & DOCILE MARES (OH TO HAVE SPIED YOU 4 A SINGLE FLEETING MOMENT IN BEAUTIFUL-BOY JODHPURS) OR GONE 2 KIDDIE COTILLION WEARING SNOW WHITE SHIRTS W COLLARS STARCHED 2 PERT ATTENTION & DANCED “THE PETITIONERS WALTZ,” BEEN TAUGHT 2 B DEMURE, YET THE WAY YR EYES — EYES W THE LASHES OF A SEBASTIAN TH@ LACERATED US WHENEVER U BLINKED THEM OUR WAY — FELL 2 THE FLOOR WHEN @ GRAVE & PRESSING JUNCTURES U FINISHED SAYING SUMTHING REALLY FILTHY MADE US SWOON.

HOW UNCANNY THEN TH@ THE UTTER & ENTIRE GIRTHY BRAWN OF BODY & SOUL U SHOWED LYING THERE IN THE GLOOM, BALLS ASS NAKED ON A PROMISE & IN 0 HURRY ON TH@ OLD HARD RUBBER CONVEYOR BELT, CURVES & FOLDS & PATCHES OF THICK CURLY HAIR JUST BARELY VISIBLE, YR SWEET SEN-SEN SCENTED SUSURUS BARELY AUDIBLE, LIKE THE SOFTEST ZITHER MUSIC WHISPERING “THIS IS KIND OF PLACE WHERE YOU BRING STRANGE, RIGHT?” TH@ VOICE TH@ ALWAYS DID & ALWAYS WILL IN MEMORY GO STR8 (HA!) 2 OUR PRIVATE PARTS. TURNING THE DISMAL HAMSTER WHEEL OF LIFE IN2 THE HIGHEST REACHING & MOST DIZZYING FERRIS WHEEL OF DREAMING & ½ LIGHT REALMS FAR FLUNG IN SPACE & TIME FROM THIS WORLD OF HURT & THE RAPTUROUS ALLURING SEDIMENTED CLUTCH HITTER MAGIC IN U TH@T LULLED US IN2 TOTAL ABSORPTION OF THE OTHERWORLDLY SCENTS & IMAGES & ATMOSPHERES OF TH@ — WE’RE CUMMING!

(WE KNOW WE FIT THE DESCRIPTION OF AN AGING SUGAR DADDY, OLD SCHOOL TIE IN A WORLD OF OPEN-COLLAR YOUTH. READER, TAKE PITY ON OUR DESPERATION: FURTIVE GLANCES IN SHOPPING MALLS & DRIVE-BY COME-ONS IN OUR LINCOLN TOWN CAR. SAD.)

YR BLING LIFE & ITS WANDERINGS MANIFOLD WERE THE CONSTANT SUBJECT OF THE HS GOSSIP BLOG RUN BY TH@ ODIOUS LITTLE NELLIE FAGGOT CURTIS BRAY. U MADE THINGS & DID FRIENDS — SUCH STAMINA! YRS WAS A SIMPLE FAITH TH@ TRANSCENDED UTILITY — & WHEN IT WAS BROKEN “I HAVE BEEN SLANDERED” WAS ALL YOU’D SAY, “AN ENEMY HAS SCANDALIZED MY NAME. WHY DO PEOPLE DO SUCH THINGS?” WHEN THE PALTRY, VENAL CIRCUMSTANCES WERE BROUGHT 2 LIGHT WE WERE ENRAGED — WE WANTED THE B/TRAYER DEAD ON A SLAB. 4 U WERE NT BORN & BRED W/OUT THE WILL OF THE GODS. WE HADN’T HAD YR BACK PURPOSEFULLY ENUF: OUR BAD.

0 SLUDGE OF GUILT, 0 STAIN OF SHAME BESMIRCHED THE XXXISTENTIAL QUALITY OF YOUR MEASURELESS CONSTANT & POSITIVELY FRANCISCAN MAN RAKER ATTRIBUTES — 74" OF UPRIGHT OLYMPIAN AMERICAN MANBOY STANDING FEARLESS ATOP A WINDY CRAG ON THE EDGE OF 4EVER IN A WAR TORN WORLD — NOR OF YR BOLD, BRAVE & EARNEST MIND, & AS U HAD NEXT 2 0 IMAGINATION, NEXT 2 0THNG NEED B LEFT 2 IT. U WERE WHAT EVRY RAGGED RABBLE, EVRY HAPPY POSSE, NEEDS: A REAL NO-NONSENSE TAKE-CHARGE BOY (“LET’S JUST GO AND TALK ABOUT THIS OVER SOME ICE CREAM”) & IF 0 16 YR OLD BOY EVER MADE TH@ KIND OF MONEY IN 1 NITE TRIMMING HEDGES & MOWING LAWNS IN THE MOONLIGHT — WELL, HOW DID TH@ SONG OF LADY DAY’S GO? IF U SHOULD’VE TAKEN A NOTION 2 JUMP IN2 THE OCEAN WEREN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS, NO INDEED, NT 1 SOUL’S NEVERMIND IF U DID. (BEWARE OF JEALOUSY, THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER.)

& SUMMER DAYS SHOULD B FILLED WITH MORE THAN TRIMMING HEDGES & MOWING LAWNS. IT WAS OBVIOUS 2 THE KEEN OBSERVER TH@ SUM SERIOUS WEDGES OF CASH MONEY HAD CUM IN2 THE PICTURE — IN FACT HAD BOUGHT THE PICTURE & HAD IT SUITABLY FRAMED.

THE BODY IS A TEMPLE. JUST THE WAY U SAT THERE CROSS-LEGGED BUT HIDING 0 — NT TH@ ANYBODY WAS LOOKING @ U WITH A SPOON IN HIS H& — RESOLUTE IN YR REFUSAL EVER 2 GO OVER 2 THE DARK SIDE EVEN OUT OF CURIOSITY, TRYING 2 IMPART SERENITY 2 OTHERS WHILE EVRY LITTLE HORNPUPPY SNUG AS A BUG IN A RUG IN HIS BEDROLL LONGED 2 BE YR CHOSEN 1 IF ONLY 4 AN HR. “KEEP YOUR STICK ON THE ICE,” U COUNSELED THEM & HOW THEY LOVED 2 RUN AROUND TOWN REPEATING IT (& WHERE’S THE HARM?).

WHO WAS IT DECLARED ALL GOOD THINGS MUST CUM 2 AN END? SUM SHITHEAD.

HARD UPON THE DAYS OF YR GREATEST GLORY CAME THE DAYS OF YR GREATEST PASSION, YR GREATEST LOVE & YR GREATEST PAIN, & THE BOATHOUSE BECAME YR HOME — U’D FLY ACROSS THE GOLF COURSE 2 IT UNCONSCIOUS OF THE GAMES U DISRUPTED. & 1 DAY THERE IT WAS ON YR LEFT HAND RING FINGER: A GOLD BAND — A PROMISE RING WAS ALL U’D SAY AS U WIPED THE FALLING TEARS OF ACHING HAPPINESS OFF YR CHIN W THE HEEL OF YR PALM & WE KNEW TH@ WHOEVER THE OTHER PLAYER WAS THERE WD B 0 AWAY GAMES ON EITHER SIDE.

UNEASY SPRING BECAME TURBULENT SUMMER. HIS PEOPLE SIMPLY WOULDN’T PUT UP W IT. THINGS GREW WORSE & WORSE & THEN SUDDENLY LIKE A BOLT OUT OF THE BLUE THE MOST SHOCKING THING THE TOWN HAD EVER HEARD, HE OPENLY DEFIED THEM — OPENLY DEFIED THEM IN THE PRESS & FROM THE OPEN PULPIT OF THE CHURCH OF THE BELOVED DISCIPLE, RECENTLY CONSECRATED BY THE EPISCOPAL BISHOP. FUCK THE $$$$, U WD LIVE ON LOVE.

THEN ON TH@ VERY SAME SUNDAY, LATE IN THE ATERNOON IN AN INSTANT OUT OF NOWHERE A JUDAS WINDOW OPENED IN THE SKY. THE STORM HD BN APPROACHING, BUT THE SUMMER EVENING SKY REMAINED DECEPTIVELY BRIGHT, UNTIL IN ONE INFERNAL INSTANT THE TORRENT OF HAILSTONES RAINED DOWN BOUNCING OFF THE GRASS & YOU AS IF NEWLY BAPTIZED. FLEW IN EXALTATION ACROSS THE PLAYING FIELD LIKE THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL & EXPENSIVE ARABIAN STALLION BREAKING OUT OF THE STARTING GATE. THEN THE LIGHTNING STRUCK & THERE ON THE GROUND TH@ HAD BEEN YR PERSONAL FIELD OF GLORY U FELL 2 EARTH & DIED IN YR ARMS BEFORE PRINCE VALIANT CD REACH U (“10-53! HEARTTHROB DOWN! 10-64! AMBULANCE!”) THE SCENE WAS NT PLAYED OUT IN D/TACHED FRAGMENTS, 4 DEATH THE COMMON FATE OF ALL MEN, CAN NT THE VERY GODS AVERT EVEN FROM THE MAN THEY LOVE.

U WERE REMOVED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM WHICH WR RUNNING (2 THE BOATHOUSE) INTO TOWN & LAID @ YR LENGTH, DRENCHED & DEAD ON THE CORONER’S COLD STEEL TABLE IN THE COUNTY MORGUE, YR IMMACULATE FACE & SILKEN BODY, UNLIKE THOSE OF THE MARTYRED STEPHEN LYING BLOODIED & BROKEN @ THE FEET OF HIS KILLERS, UNTOUCHED, MIRACULOUSLY UNBRUISED BY HEAVEN’S PUNISHING STONES UNTIL THE CUSTOMARY ARRANGEMENTS CD B MADE BY US, YR ONLY PEOPLE. (4 AS 2 THE OTHERS, WHO HAD THEY EVER DARED BE 2 U & WHERE HAD THEY FLED? FROM 0WHERE HAD THEY EVER RETURNED NOR DID THEY THEN 2 CLAIM U.) THERE MIGHT HAVE FOLLOWED A RUCKUS, A COMMOTION, BUT WE STOPPED IT IN ITS TRACKS: WE CLAIMED OUR BOY.

(THEY ALL PRAY 4 HIS SOUL AS THE OPERA ENDS.)

LIGHTLY MIGHT GOD WERE HE SO WILLING (“I MIGHT”) BRING A MAN HOME FROM AFAR, FROM THE REGIONS OF THE HIGH PLATEAU OR FROM VALLEYS LYING LOW IN DEEP CAVERNED HILLS. BUT U WERE JUST A BOY & ONLY STARTING OUT. THIS WAS NOT LEFT FOR DEAD 2, THIS WAS STARK REALITY — ALTHO CUM 2 THINK OF IT THOSE MINDLESS ZOMBIES IN THE GAME TRYING 2 EAT THE PLAYERS’ BRAINS WERE 0 LESS SICKENING THAN THE 3 FATES OR 4 TH@ MATTER THE SUPPOSED 3-PERSON MIND OF A CRUEL, FICKLE & FUCKED-UP GOD. (HOW OFTEN AS CHILDREN, WHEN CAUGHT OUT IN A NASTY TRANSGRESSION, PARTICULARLY 1 OF A SEXUAL NATURE, HAVE WE BEGGED HIM 2 MAKE IT BE TH@ WE HAD NEVER DONE IT OR WHEN MET W THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A PET BEGGED HIM 2 MAKE IT NOT SO, BUT AS THE BEAUTIFUL BUT UNRULY AGATHON ASSURED THE GREEKS, THE 1 THING DENIED HIM IS THE POWER 2 UNDO WHAT’S DONE. LAZARUS WAS NEVER DEAD.)

FALLING IN LOVE W LOVE IS FALLING 4 MIGHT AS WELL.

& 2 WHOM 2 RETURN THE 24-KARAT GOLD ROLEX SUBMARINER FOUND ON YOUR WRIST TH@ 0BODY HAD EVER SEEN THERE BEFORE, OR OF THE INSCRIPTION ON THE BACK: AMICUS OPTIMA VITAE POSSESSIO? 4 HE HAD LEFT U 2 — LEFT U 2 US, WHICH WAS IN TRUTH A KINDNESS.

HOW 2 (& WHY?) FIGHT THE FIRE TH@ HAD BLAZED IN YR GREAT YOUNG HEART? ALL TH@ HYPOCRITICAL OLD SON OF A BITCH HONEYSUCKLE WD SAY WAS “THEY WERE FIXIN’ T’BE THE ROVER BOYS, THAT MYSTERY BOY, THAT RICH MYSTERY BOY PROMISED SKOOZLE A LIFE OF HIS OWN THAT CAME WITH NO PRICE TAG ON IT OTHER THAN THE BIGGEST ONE OF ALL, “THE PRICE OF HAPPINESS.” AS IF HE KNEW THE WHOLE STORY, WHICH 0BODY WITH A MIND CD BELIEVE 4 A MINUTE. (ALTHO TH@ IT HAD 2 DO WITH 1 OF THOSE GREAT LAWNS & THE HOUSE BEHIND THE HEDGES & THE NIGHTS TH@ WERE IN IT FEW IF N/E DOUBTED.) “FOUR OLD MEN CAN KEEP A SECRET ONLY IF THREE OF THEM ARE DEAD.” HE SAID TH@ VERY THING, OBVIOUSLY 4 EFFECT. & SO ENDED THE GOD BOY’S HARROWING OF HELL ON EARTH.

PLAISIR D’AMOUR NE DURE QU’UN MOMENT,
CHAGRIN D’AMOUR DURE TOUTE LA VIE.

IT WAS LOVELY 2 B ALIVE WHEN U WERE; IT’S NT BN LOVELY SINCE.

W OUR BREATH HITCHED IN OUR THROAT.

0 MORE INFO BACKLOG 2 B HAD ON OUR BELOVED SKOOZLE. AS WE STARE OUT THE PLANE WINDOW WE PREPARE OURSELVES 4 A GOOD CRY. WE HAD 2 GET AWAY — & NT 2 SUM VACATION SPOT EITHER 2 SIT UNDER A BEACH UMBRELLA, SIP TOM COLLINSES & CATCH UP ON OUR READING. WE’D LEFT 4 GOOD — LET SOMEBODY ELSE OR 0BODY @ ALL PICK UP THE PIECES. THERE WAS NO LIVING IN THE TOWN 1/CE OUR SKOOZLE HAD LEFT US, 2 FEEL THE HEAT OF HIS HEARTY HANDSHAKE NEVERMORE.

SKOOZLE, I HEAR U CALL 2 ME
@ MOONRISE ’CROSS A SILVER SEA
SOFTLY THE WAVES MAKE MELODY,
2 AWAKE MY SONG OF MEMORY
YOU ARE THE WHITE FOAM CRASHING ON THE DARK ROCKS,
MY HEART THE HOLLOWED SEPULCHER
WHERIN YR BONES LIE RESTLESS,
RATTLING LIKE THE WINDOW SHUTTERS
IN A HOWLING SUMMER STORM.
(YR VIRTUAL BONES TH@ IS, AS U WR CREMATED.)

SKOOZLE OUR OWN BOY, WHAT KIND OF SLEEP IS THIS?

SKOOZLE PUSHING UP DAISIES: SACRED MYTH OF ADONIS. WE’D HAPPILY HAVE THROWN DOWN PALMS & ROSES @ YR FEET BUT 4 THE TALK. WHAT WE HOLD INSIDE 4 U IS CLEAN & PURE 4EVER.

2ND 2 THE RITE, & STR8 ON TIL MORNING.