Exposed to hungry eyes of your new handsome lover.
You know your image, yet you want to quickly take it
with trusted assets, dear to you, back under cover.
It makes the world of difference if one day you learn
that love and lust may yet be amply represented
in eyes that gaze with palpable concern.
A lovely sight you are he says because he meant it. ‘
The words confirm for you that he is here to stay.
yet men with wads of doughstood near the creature’s shrunken head.One could not really tell about the means,there were some sticks, a hammer, even twobut what unfolded was a curious mixof betting papers and the need to still subdue.They beat the carcass mildly decomposeduntil the feeling had embraced them all,and when the cruel winter came…
And no amount of shaking didor would (so I was told)catch your idiosyncratic tongue.So there was ample grounds to changeinto a lantern, kerosene and all,which, like a jet propelled my needinto the stalagmites indeed.
It seemed that fate,as he interpretedit, and those other,less important matters,was just sooo fickle,and never everwould it cometo save the dayfor two wild boyswho had been borninto a worldwhere dust of warstill had not settled,after all.It was the stresshe later said,called post-traumatic.We could not know,nor be expectedat our age,that nerves had been,without much warning,but cold…
The bus was crammed with noisy pupilsof which a handful had no scruples.They ran around and screamed abuseand threw against the windows shoes.The driver whose authorityhad wilted like old celery,stood up and ordered them to sitbut no one listened then, to witthey now increased their rowdyismwhich clashed with Gus’ catholicism.A turn came up, they saw…
as my Dad used to saydo not waste your dismayon the members of Pollyanna.
each coming birthday for two daysthis strategy, in case it payswill grant to me a frank reversaland, in a way a sly rehearsal,by adding then subtracting -YES-and neutralizing, can you guess,the gain in years and to forestallthe ultimate and final fall!So, let it be my secret planto be the first, an ageless man.
