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419 We grow accustomed to the Dark— When light is put away— As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye— A Moment—We uncertain step For newness of the night— Then—fit our Vision to the Dark— And meet the Road—erect— And so of larger—Darkness— Those Evenings of the Brain— When not a Moon disclose a sign— Or Star—come out—within— The Bravest—grope a little— And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead— But as they learn to see— Either the Darkness alters— Or something in the sight Adjusts itself to Midnight— And Life steps almost straight.
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We grow accustomed to the Dark
Bittersweet, get me going.                      hold your breath over my neck,                                     it really          lets me go,                          twists my tongue. Talk to me                   like an angel but,                                                           touch me                 like a convict.                           disrespect me,               neglect me, abuse me, but,               with a voice I can't refuse. Bittersweet, like a rose infused. Bittersweet, keep me going.         my heart flutters and flails when I hear you in my ear.              Whisper me ********** but,                                        ***** me like a ******                     ****** me,              reduce me, fool me,              but  Bittersweet,                                           make me feel ***** Like you're in school and I am turning thirty.
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Oct 20, 2010
Oct 20, 2010 at 9:56 PM UTC
But Bittersweet
” she is quick to object" Mumbai,  to receive the accolade of “Role Player Attempt to hit back at their perceived “bully.” They don’t fall a little; they crash into muck... submission,   hopelessness, impunity, corruption, hypocrisy, law and family ... to ***** you since they’re not saints, they are neither saints nor priests, There’s a new order coming from mayor. We won t **** you all .... We will just shoot the ******  that — if there is no ****** it would be useless. she is quick to object". Fighting sexism and misogyny, nonetheless open and willing to listen, wear bug spray going forward, “inform the court that we did this” “didn’t like that.” ,” she is quick to object".
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Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 at 10:06 AM UTC
Quick
In fathoms Between my flannel sheets, There's no better place To sleep; But then I turn my blanket on, Level Two Is snug and warm. Envelope-like we interlope, Entwine and grind, And grasp and ***** Giving me rising hope, This tug's gonna stay afloat. Up now. Rise. Up periscope! Dive. Dive! Beneath waves and swirls, Beneath flannel caps To chests of pearls, Now deeper, Where life unfurls. Our raging flannel Seas Grow calm; And in the quiet, After the storm, We lie on Our bedded sea, My first mate sighs: *I have to ***
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 12:51 PM UTC
I Have To ***
He forgot his soap What a dope No one here can cope He's worse than campfire smoke He could of brought it on a rope So he wouldn't have to ***** Instead he'll mope For friends he's got no hope They run when they scope The boy without his soap Rolling down the slope Singing baroque Like the pope He tried a bath in coke Oh what a joke Because the sugars provoke Mosquitoes to bite and poke. Still he stinks like BO and oak Smells like a singer of folk Whose hair is matted into rope Cause he won't use soap What a dope!
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Nov 28, 2012
Nov 28, 2012 at 11:33 PM UTC
Boy Scout Camp
Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Remember us—if at all—not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. II Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death’s dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind’s singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star. Let me be no nearer In death’s dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer— Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom III This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man’s hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. Is it like this In death’s other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone. IV The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We ***** together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death’s twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men. V Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning. Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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The Hollow Men
Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Remember us—if at all—not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. II Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death’s dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind’s singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star. Let me be no nearer In death’s dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer— Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom III This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man’s hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. Is it like this In death’s other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone. IV The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We ***** together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death’s twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men. V Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning. Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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At age 7, I was guilty when I accepted an invitation to go into the apartment of a neighbor He smelled of beer as he groped me. At age 10, I was guilty when I walked home too late because I missed the train He popped out of the bushes exposing himself. At age 12, I was guilty when my uncle forced tongue into my mouth because I could not get away. At age 14, I was guilty when my uncle forced me to sit on his lap while in my bathing suit and I ran away from home. At age 16, I was guilty when my uncle convinced everyone that I was a liar and I quit school. At age 18, I was guilty when I gave birth to my first child, because I was ignorant. At age 20, I was guilty when I saw the cardiologist in the reflection of a lamp ************  and the police laughed at my report. At age 30, I was guilty when my employer trapped me in the elevator to ***** me, because I was his subserviant. At age 36, I was guilty when I earned jujitsu honors but risked going to jail for defending myself. At age 70, I was guilty when a neighbor brought me fruit and grabbed my breast, because I was alone. At age 72, I am guilty of being a ferule woman for 50 years and for NOT be silent!
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Jan 23, 2018
Jan 23, 2018 at 9:53 AM UTC
GUILTY
Bitter shouting remedies Wailing in the streets Beggars wanting more than just The crumbs off royal seats Fancy ******* lunatics Brainwashing people like twits So ******* what If I'm female And want to ***** her ****
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May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 6:25 AM UTC
Those Who Govern Refuse To Change
The fault of our reality is not written in our stars And it will not dance across unfavorable constellations, Or dissolve into inconsolable fragments. The fault, my love, is not written in our stars. It is written in ourselves. But how fortunate would it be? To cast the providence of our unlucky affairs Into the gloomy twilight, Where the sky is so unilluminated That we could close our restful eyes And fathom a world where it does not exist? But the fault, my love, is not written in our stars. It is written in ourselves. We are heavily folded sheets of stationary: A collection of utterances Bound into melancholy novels By our mangled hearts, And though spoken words Still fall onto my turning pages As tears do fall from my reddened cheeks, I have yet to forget The chapter you have left unwritten, Because an unwritten chapter is one to be adorned: It cannot end For it does not exist. And so we fumble through an amorous affliction, Fabricated into a bittersweet infinity. And at midnight, When my restless fingers ***** the empty air for you, And the reality of our desolate fault Seeps into my hands, I wish you were here. But the fault, my love, is not written in our stars. It is written in ourselves. j.s.
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 3:28 AM UTC
The Fault in Our Stars
The first time I made love to my mind When love escaped from the gaps Between our silences and overthinkings I saw the naked mind. We sailed from thousand cuddles of imprudence To a long warm kiss of sanity. While I dwindled in her arms of fool's paradise No sleep just one long weary night, Her ****** reeked of loneliness I licked it. Hoping to taste ingenuity, it was the aftertaste of forsaken feelings that made me ***** her till she stopped moaning neon dreams. Somewhere in my walkabouts in her I created deep craters of memories Which she took for love bites were, in fact, scars for life. We were virgins on our quests Thirsting our way through wanting and longing...... She made me swallow lust Slowly. Heavily downtown. And fingered it, the ***** of thoughts Ruptured. And she bled musings. And Phantasmagoria exuding from her holes And Spurting into mine like a cascade of brooding melancholy..... And.... And.... The night my mind lost its virginity, I sat down to write.
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Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017 at 6:21 AM UTC
I make love to my mind
the rope dangles like a noose I would beg for your sweet abuse tell me how to hurt for fun tie me up and come undone paint my ankles with your thread fibers rub to crimson red I'm strong enough to take it to your love I will commit tell me all you plan to do desire and come into feel your fervour through the rope feel your tongue against me ***** your need becomes mine to fill tie me up, I'll be your thrill
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Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 at 8:13 PM UTC
*******
by rgpage in times long past young lovers dashed to reach their secret space. to kiss and ***** and plan and hope their future's goals are placed. never mind their path be lined with unknown strife and pain. their love is strong they'll carry on with carefree youthful gain. they don't see their life to be past cupid's hot embrace. as hot breath blends with kiss' deep young lovers start their chase. young love is hot and secrets not shall block their youthful nest. when young men dare and young girls share young lovers start their quest. its saturday night, dad's packard's right with half a tank of gas. with comb to hair in the bathroom mirror he's thinking 'bout his lass. its only been a week gone past his greatest dream came true. he staked his claim, with hopes on high and pinned his Peggy Sue. they talked of passages young men take to cross that great divide. to walk the way of their father's and yes to take a bride. in the grown up world so long past school the grown ups just don't see. teen love is true and made to last the way it was meant to be. he got on base with his varsity pin, the base is numbered two. this place before he'd never been he hardly knew what to do. his body went through changes great his thoughts a swirling brook. he cupped his prize with shaky hand when before he could only look. tonight's the night he's waited for yes perhaps go all the way. to walk with those who've beat love's quest to become a man this day. the time is ripe as is the night it's planned in every way. she won't resist his manly charms WHAT MONTHLY FRIEND? how long does she plan to stay? and what's her visit to do with us away from the lights of the city? who is this friend to ruin this night? his plans be dashed more the pity.
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Dec 2, 2011
Dec 2, 2011 at 11:44 AM UTC
50's romeo
by rgpage in times long past young lovers dashed to reach their secret space. to kiss and ***** and plan and hope their future's goals are placed. never mind their path be lined with unknown strife and pain. their love is strong they'll carry on with carefree youthful gain. they don't see their life to be past cupid's hot embrace. as hot breath blends with kiss' deep young lovers start their chase. young love is hot and secrets not shall block their youthful nest. when young men dare and young girls share young lovers start their quest. its saturday night, dad's packard's right with half a tank of gas. with comb to hair in the bathroom mirror he's thinking 'bout his lass. its only been a week gone past his greatest dream came true. he staked his claim, with hopes on high and pinned his Peggy Sue. they talked of passages young men take to cross that great divide. to walk the way of their father's and yes to take a bride. in the grown up world so long past school the grown ups just don't see. teen love is true and made to last the way it was meant to be. he got on base with his varsity pin, the base is numbered two. this place before he'd never been he hardly knew what to do. his body went through changes great his thoughts a swirling brook. he cupped his prize with shaky hand when before he could only look. tonight's the night he's waited for yes perhaps go all the way. to walk with those who've beat love's quest to become a man this day. the time is ripe as is the night it's planned in every way. she won't resist his manly charms WHAT MONTHLY FRIEND? how long does she plan to stay? and what's her visit to do with us away from the lights of the city? who is this friend to ruin this night? his plans be dashed more the pity.
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no slavering kisses like a dog on heat no schoolboy fumble wanting you to beat his meat. no ***** in the dark or a letch to grab your **** no rancid breath,nor sweaty skin to grasp you in his mits. just you and your fingers and your own ***** vices pure ecstacy of loving yourself with your battery op devices. it is all in the touch the rhythm of your wrist the way your body squirms giving a wriggle to your hips. a gasp n moan ************ brings you pleasure frustrated tensions fade away as you fiddle at your leisure. reaching your crescendo a throb a pant a sigh eyes slightly misted youre at your dizzying high. copyright gothicmistress 2010
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Nov 19, 2010
Nov 19, 2010 at 6:02 AM UTC
************ for the nation
He motioned for her to take her place on the back. He braced himself steady as she slid herself onto the rack. Once she had settled, he handed her his gunny sack, He told her keep it safe as he tackled the offbeaten track. The night was quiet, save for the crickets chirping in unison Hiding behind the clouds, the moon gave out a dim ominous glow. The tapper finally felt a tiny sliver of trepidation He wasn't sure of the outcome, that night would eventually show. The whole time, he was thinking in his busy little head... He tried to devise ways to thwart this playful, mischievous being. But those thoughts of his were quickly derailed instead. For her perfumed presence was very much intoxicating. Soon they had arrived at the foot of the hill He hastened his pedalling to meet the uphill slope. He would have continued slamming on the pedals until... He felt her hand on his shoulder clench into a tight ***** He tilted his head back towards his beautiful passenger. In a calm manner he mouthed the words asking, "What's the matter?" Her voice came right after in a nervous stammer, "Would you mind slowing down because last night this was where I had fallen over..."
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 8:26 AM UTC
Moment of Truth (VI)
She moved me. Dancing in a circle of women She moved me. Rising from the Earth into my womb through my heart to the tips of my fingers She moved through me. With her sacred dance She showed me how to dip into Her honey *** arousing a lust for Life’s sweet Nectar. A longing so deep that my blind fingers ***** in the dark for one touch from the lips of The Beloved. One lick, one **** one sigh, one moment of bliss before I die to this dance, to the thundering footsteps in my breast.
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Sep 21, 2010
Sep 21, 2010 at 4:56 AM UTC
Shakti
lovers are burning.] balsamic ****** gallops from shame into the overwild wetness of labial volcanoes, caramelized in musk. by love's labor. laid bare, their bodies origami inhibition...[ lovers are burning. ] and surrender is victorious ! Eros is speechless. maidens howl into cumulus goose-down, chewing carnal haikus with swayed backs.... hips wide and wanton. masculine wands plow oyster beds, unmade. they joust pearls... and [ lovers are burning ] .... a damp conflagration; tongue stoked and windswept, conspires. monotony is slain ! puritan harps are plucked and thrummed ! lewd harmonies anoint the perfect pitch and a chorus moans. the ghost of sylvia plath, straddles Apollo; and he earns his wreath surging besotted. [ lovers are burning ] and laurels forgotten. lotharios charge the seldom road; the starfish door to Saturn's parlor. pumping unbridled, that glistening, cloven moon. her riding crop insists ! his urgency must do. satyrs sup salaciously and summon staves to dip in brine. they grin and grind their sutras, stripping karma gears with silk scarves. ankles to a post, well spread... cushions crush. flowers press... stamen fed. nymphs clutch their serpent stones to drain what nectar slips the slit. they ***** and throat. they peck and pinch their quivers; knock their arrows to the purpose, half spent. [ lovers are burning ] eyes ablaze. nostrils fetch randy fumes of consent. mouths seek. a pouty swamp with Spanish moss.... finds a matador and a bull, a china shop. lovers are burning the rough sketch of a lost god and their angels are voyeurs with unclean thoughts for gospels.
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 3:14 PM UTC
[ Lovers Are Burning ]
lovers are burning.] balsamic ****** gallops from shame into the overwild wetness of labial volcanoes, caramelized in musk. by love's labor. laid bare, their bodies origami inhibition...[ lovers are burning. ] and surrender is victorious ! Eros is speechless. maidens howl into cumulus goose-down, chewing carnal haikus with swayed backs.... hips wide and wanton. masculine wands plow oyster beds, unmade. they joust pearls... and [ lovers are burning ] .... a damp conflagration; tongue stoked and windswept, conspires. monotony is slain ! puritan harps are plucked and thrummed ! lewd harmonies anoint the perfect pitch and a chorus moans. the ghost of sylvia plath, straddles Apollo; and he earns his wreath surging besotted. [ lovers are burning ] and laurels forgotten. lotharios charge the seldom road; the starfish door to Saturn's parlor. pumping unbridled, that glistening, cloven moon. her riding crop insists ! his urgency must do. satyrs sup salaciously and summon staves to dip in brine. they grin and grind their sutras, stripping karma gears with silk scarves. ankles to a post, well spread... cushions crush. flowers press... stamen fed. nymphs clutch their serpent stones to drain what nectar slips the slit. they ***** and throat. they peck and pinch their quivers; knock their arrows to the purpose, half spent. [ lovers are burning ] eyes ablaze. nostrils fetch randy fumes of consent. mouths seek. a pouty swamp with Spanish moss.... finds a matador and a bull, a china shop. lovers are burning the rough sketch of a lost god and their angels are voyeurs with unclean thoughts for gospels.
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As I try to shield myself from the beast of civilization, the cold hearted bleeding dagger protruding through the back of America, that filthy, filthy, king of darkness swallowing the minds and dissecting the thoughts of the youth, the raging zombie in the form of love. So I tried. Beauty claim the beast as it was written and saw the true face of Frankenstein. What a soft timid thing, similar to me. Dare I try? ***** the breast and taste the flesh of the raw meat. Something new, something sweet, something just like me. Beauty tamed the beast and so the face was revealed.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 9:54 AM UTC
Gay
365Nectar #60 Devour Me Fri. November 22, 2013 9:18 P.M. Devour me... A provocative passionate pouring of pillaging and plundering... A pleasing prowling of a piercing plunderer... A lovely, limp nymph laid upon a sizzling alter... Smoldering... Awakening all the senses a choking of lust unleashes exhilarating and envelops you... Effortlessly evoking ethereal... a sinister seduction seductively seduces and hungry hips breakdance with hysterical Stimulating a surreal surge of a sweet seeping... waiting... impatiently... For you to chisel an unimaginable devouring... S slow steady climb to the summit of the ultimate ****** Time- Time- Time... a tool to employ flamboyantly... immediately... eargerly... Expose my conquered heart that leaks of streams of cream of succulent sensation... Expose my tamed moistness that whispery whines as you build a legacy of torturous licking.... Seductively... Slithering in spicy spirals of stirring screams from stormy shivers of steamy anticipation of your redefining touch... Suddenly... drowning in the sticky sensation of all that is us... A tender luscious love liquefying flesh and penetrating souls... We blend in blazing bliss tapping taboo for titillating thrills you rock a rowdy ravishing inside me... I whisper wet whimpers and beg for bitten breast... Our wrestling hips hug, ***** and groan a hungry growling... Pounded into saturated submission I linger in lubricating dreams for you- to... devour me.
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 6:42 PM UTC
Devour Me
The bar behind the theatre was nearly empty apart from a couple of gay boys. Well, it was a gay bar, so no ******* surprise there. I glanced at the fat one and decided, 'No thank you very much,' as I have noticed fat people often smell unpleasantly, maybe it's the sweat trapped between their ********** that does it. But the other one was very cute and I decided I would have him. In those days, it was regarded as 'de rigeur' to buy a lad a lager and lime before dragging him home with you for some nookie, so I coughed up for a half pint with charm and grace. Sadly, he was no great shakes in the conversational stakes, but was I after intellectual stimulation? No, I ******* wasn't. Anyway, once I'd checked his passport to ensure he was over-age (no one wants any ******* trouble from the bigoted morality squad) I dragged him back to my elegant bachelor orgy-pad and stripped him off to investigate his lithe little body; a nice smooth little **** and a reasonably clean **** What more can you want from a one night stand? After a bit of a damp snog and a good old ***** I lubed him up and gave his *** a right good poking. He moaned a bit, but then who wouldn't moan, with seven and a half inches of thick gristle shoved all the way up their sphincter? I know I would. After I had filled his rear end with love juice a couple of times, I felt that kicking out was the name of the game. Generously, I gave him a half-crown for his bus fare as he said he was a bit short of cash, being unemployed. It was the least I could do, as he had three miles to go home, and it was raining cats and ******* dogs outside. After he'd left, I checked out the bed sheets (as you would) and was irritated to find a few skidmarks there, or they may have been where I wiped my fingers after having eaten a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk. A quick sniff confirmed my worst suspicions though. 'Ah well, true love always comes at a price', I reflected, as I scraped the worst bits off with a nail file.
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 11:49 AM UTC
A Gay Adventure
The bar behind the theatre was nearly empty apart from a couple of gay boys. Well, it was a gay bar, so no ******* surprise there. I glanced at the fat one and decided, 'No thank you very much,' as I have noticed fat people often smell unpleasantly, maybe it's the sweat trapped between their ********** that does it. But the other one was very cute and I decided I would have him. In those days, it was regarded as 'de rigeur' to buy a lad a lager and lime before dragging him home with you for some nookie, so I coughed up for a half pint with charm and grace. Sadly, he was no great shakes in the conversational stakes, but was I after intellectual stimulation? No, I ******* wasn't. Anyway, once I'd checked his passport to ensure he was over-age (no one wants any ******* trouble from the bigoted morality squad) I dragged him back to my elegant bachelor orgy-pad and stripped him off to investigate his lithe little body; a nice smooth little **** and a reasonably clean **** What more can you want from a one night stand? After a bit of a damp snog and a good old ***** I lubed him up and gave his *** a right good poking. He moaned a bit, but then who wouldn't moan, with seven and a half inches of thick gristle shoved all the way up their sphincter? I know I would. After I had filled his rear end with love juice a couple of times, I felt that kicking out was the name of the game. Generously, I gave him a half-crown for his bus fare as he said he was a bit short of cash, being unemployed. It was the least I could do, as he had three miles to go home, and it was raining cats and ******* dogs outside. After he'd left, I checked out the bed sheets (as you would) and was irritated to find a few skidmarks there, or they may have been where I wiped my fingers after having eaten a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk. A quick sniff confirmed my worst suspicions though. 'Ah well, true love always comes at a price', I reflected, as I scraped the worst bits off with a nail file.
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I. St. Luke The Painter Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray. Scarcely at once she dared to rend the mist Of devious symbols: but soon having wist How sky-breadth and field-silence and this day Are symbols also in some deeper way, She looked through these to God and was God’s priest. And if, past noon, her toil began to irk, And she sought talismans, and turned in vain To soulless self-reflections of man’s skill, Yet now, in this the twilight, she might still Kneel in the latter grass to pray again, Ere the night cometh and she may not work. II. Not As These ‘I am not as these are,’ the poet saith In youth’s pride, and the painter, among men At bay, where never pencil comes nor pen, And shut about with his own frozen breath. To others, for whom only rhyme wins faith As poets,—only paint as painters,—then He turns in the cold silence; and again Shrinking, ‘I am not as these are,’ he saith. And say that this is so, what follows it? For were thine eyes set backwards in thine head, Such words were well; but they see on, and far. Unto the lights of the great Past, new-lit Fair for the Future’s track, look thou instead,— Say thou instead ‘I am not as these are.’ III. The Husbandmen Though God, as one that is an householder, Called these to labour in his vine-yard first, Before the husk of darkness was well burst Bidding them ***** their way out and bestir, (Who, questioned of their wages, answered, ‘Sir, Unto each man a penny:’) though the worst Burthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst: Though God hath since found none such as these were To do their work like them:—Because of this Stand not ye idle in the market-place. Which of ye knoweth he is not that last Who may be first by faith and will?—yea, his The hand which after the appointed days And hours shall give a Future to their Past?
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Old And New Art
I. St. Luke The Painter Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray. Scarcely at once she dared to rend the mist Of devious symbols: but soon having wist How sky-breadth and field-silence and this day Are symbols also in some deeper way, She looked through these to God and was God’s priest. And if, past noon, her toil began to irk, And she sought talismans, and turned in vain To soulless self-reflections of man’s skill, Yet now, in this the twilight, she might still Kneel in the latter grass to pray again, Ere the night cometh and she may not work. II. Not As These ‘I am not as these are,’ the poet saith In youth’s pride, and the painter, among men At bay, where never pencil comes nor pen, And shut about with his own frozen breath. To others, for whom only rhyme wins faith As poets,—only paint as painters,—then He turns in the cold silence; and again Shrinking, ‘I am not as these are,’ he saith. And say that this is so, what follows it? For were thine eyes set backwards in thine head, Such words were well; but they see on, and far. Unto the lights of the great Past, new-lit Fair for the Future’s track, look thou instead,— Say thou instead ‘I am not as these are.’ III. The Husbandmen Though God, as one that is an householder, Called these to labour in his vine-yard first, Before the husk of darkness was well burst Bidding them ***** their way out and bestir, (Who, questioned of their wages, answered, ‘Sir, Unto each man a penny:’) though the worst Burthen of heat was theirs and the dry thirst: Though God hath since found none such as these were To do their work like them:—Because of this Stand not ye idle in the market-place. Which of ye knoweth he is not that last Who may be first by faith and will?—yea, his The hand which after the appointed days And hours shall give a Future to their Past?
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We are the genuine men We are the fulfilled men Standing together Headpiece filled with ideas. Huzzah! Our powerful voices, when We cheer together Are loud and meaningful As wind in wet grass Or dancing feet over wooden floors In our damp attics Shape with form, shade with colour, Dynamic force, motion without gesture; Those who have crossed With indirect eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Forget  us—if at all—not as found Peaceful souls, but only As the genuine men The fulfilled men. Eyes I dare meet in nightmares In death’s dream kingdom These do  appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a whole column There, is a tree standing And voices are In the wind’s singing More close and more bashful Than a newly formed star. Let me be closer In death’s dream kingdom Let me not wear Such obvious disguises Silk shirt, snakeskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves Closer— That first meeting In the twilight kingdom This is the living land This is fruitful land Here the cloudy images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a living man’s hand Under the twinkle of a newly formed star. It is like this In death’s other kingdom Waking together At the minute when we are Shaking with excitement Lips that would kiss Form praise to no stone. The eyes are here There are eyes here In this valley of living stars In this flowing valley This whole jaw of our lost kingdoms In this first of meeting places We ***** alone And invite speech Gathered on this beach of the free river Vision, unless The eyes disappear As the periodic star Monofoliate daisy Of death’s twilight kingdom The hope only Of whole men. *Here we go round the mulberry bush Mulberry bush mulberry bush Here we go round the mulberry bush At five o’clock in the morning.* Between the thought And the implementation Between the movement And the deed Rises the Light                                 For Thine is the Kingdom Between the inception And the construction Between the feeling And the reaction Rises the Light                                 Life is very short Between the need And the want Between the potential And the substance Between the ingredients And the ascent Rises the Light                                 For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world begins This is the way the world begins This is the way the world begins Not with a whimper but a bang.
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM UTC
The Genuine Men
We are the genuine men We are the fulfilled men Standing together Headpiece filled with ideas. Huzzah! Our powerful voices, when We cheer together Are loud and meaningful As wind in wet grass Or dancing feet over wooden floors In our damp attics Shape with form, shade with colour, Dynamic force, motion without gesture; Those who have crossed With indirect eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Forget  us—if at all—not as found Peaceful souls, but only As the genuine men The fulfilled men. Eyes I dare meet in nightmares In death’s dream kingdom These do  appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a whole column There, is a tree standing And voices are In the wind’s singing More close and more bashful Than a newly formed star. Let me be closer In death’s dream kingdom Let me not wear Such obvious disguises Silk shirt, snakeskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves Closer— That first meeting In the twilight kingdom This is the living land This is fruitful land Here the cloudy images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a living man’s hand Under the twinkle of a newly formed star. It is like this In death’s other kingdom Waking together At the minute when we are Shaking with excitement Lips that would kiss Form praise to no stone. The eyes are here There are eyes here In this valley of living stars In this flowing valley This whole jaw of our lost kingdoms In this first of meeting places We ***** alone And invite speech Gathered on this beach of the free river Vision, unless The eyes disappear As the periodic star Monofoliate daisy Of death’s twilight kingdom The hope only Of whole men. *Here we go round the mulberry bush Mulberry bush mulberry bush Here we go round the mulberry bush At five o’clock in the morning.* Between the thought And the implementation Between the movement And the deed Rises the Light                                 For Thine is the Kingdom Between the inception And the construction Between the feeling And the reaction Rises the Light                                 Life is very short Between the need And the want Between the potential And the substance Between the ingredients And the ascent Rises the Light                                 For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world begins This is the way the world begins This is the way the world begins Not with a whimper but a bang.
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in the middle of a dark night no moon or street light and  I could hardly see the road in front of me but it was free and so we settled and thus we pedaled more then 30 winding miles into this wilderness of isles or so it seemed so very mean, just like a dream he said "continue , for it is in you and we can make it to the place within an hour, at this pace." his plan was brutal I'm not a poodle but I could truly smell the sweat and feeling hot and sopping wet it was no fun. at. all and like the day y'all so very done again not fun and it is true that maybe you would think ahead and plan the weekend get a room and buy a map none of this crap (but I'm a sap and went along with his idea for I had hopes for us last year) and so we learned the hard way burned. Well I could barely, i say just barely make out the single line white striping while he's right behind me griping, "can't you speed up? we're gonna meet up and the collision won't be pleasant" not that pleasant was he were so very DER! it's so ironic, perhaps moronic for there were headlights coming up the hill in front and to be blunt they had to blind me oh please don't mind me for I quickly left the scene right off the road and with scream into the blackness of a pitch which sent me down into a ditch a steep ravine so very mean and then the bike no longer able to remain beneath my seat after that drop the roll to stop landed on top and not so sweet so very beat I said '"oh sheet" I was not laughing, nor was I crying and but more like " could it be dear Lord that I am dying? Oh my God, excuse the curse so freaking odd, though i've seen worse and though my body's somewhat shaken not a bone or tooth was breakin' and I'm fully wide awake and not a pain or any ache~ so very odd it must be God. and there I lie perfectly high my eyes wide open couldn't scope but in the darkness I could ***** the rock beside my fallen hide and in a moment not an omen he said "Gee!" "Is this your knee?" I said: " Hey Mr. Moulder, you've got my shoulder." "I should have driven in the Bently" and as he pulled the bike off gently asking how these things do happen "nevermind, just lets get snappin" and we made it to the youth hostel that night.
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC
night cliff biking
in the middle of a dark night no moon or street light and  I could hardly see the road in front of me but it was free and so we settled and thus we pedaled more then 30 winding miles into this wilderness of isles or so it seemed so very mean, just like a dream he said "continue , for it is in you and we can make it to the place within an hour, at this pace." his plan was brutal I'm not a poodle but I could truly smell the sweat and feeling hot and sopping wet it was no fun. at. all and like the day y'all so very done again not fun and it is true that maybe you would think ahead and plan the weekend get a room and buy a map none of this crap (but I'm a sap and went along with his idea for I had hopes for us last year) and so we learned the hard way burned. Well I could barely, i say just barely make out the single line white striping while he's right behind me griping, "can't you speed up? we're gonna meet up and the collision won't be pleasant" not that pleasant was he were so very DER! it's so ironic, perhaps moronic for there were headlights coming up the hill in front and to be blunt they had to blind me oh please don't mind me for I quickly left the scene right off the road and with scream into the blackness of a pitch which sent me down into a ditch a steep ravine so very mean and then the bike no longer able to remain beneath my seat after that drop the roll to stop landed on top and not so sweet so very beat I said '"oh sheet" I was not laughing, nor was I crying and but more like " could it be dear Lord that I am dying? Oh my God, excuse the curse so freaking odd, though i've seen worse and though my body's somewhat shaken not a bone or tooth was breakin' and I'm fully wide awake and not a pain or any ache~ so very odd it must be God. and there I lie perfectly high my eyes wide open couldn't scope but in the darkness I could ***** the rock beside my fallen hide and in a moment not an omen he said "Gee!" "Is this your knee?" I said: " Hey Mr. Moulder, you've got my shoulder." "I should have driven in the Bently" and as he pulled the bike off gently asking how these things do happen "nevermind, just lets get snappin" and we made it to the youth hostel that night.
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it's the difference between you're so awesome and you're so interesting it's the difference between a compliment and whistling at me in public yes i express myself yes i am noticeable no i don't want you to touch me yes i express myself yes i am noticeable no i don't need your opinion it's not okay to kiss me touch me ***** me pet me without permission and it's not okay that to avoid these gestures i have to change my expression
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 9:57 PM UTC
expressive