it's so strange to go back and look at all the stuff i've written. much of it seems like doggerel and preaching! on the other hand once in a while i'd escape into things much more fun, like the only novel i've written, "Visible", based on my eight months on a greek island in the sixties. i combined myself and other characters, so don't take this as strictly autobiographical!
5.
"You're very inexperienced," said Minaret.
She was leaning on her elbow, looking down at him. He had just opened his eyes. Sunlight streamed in a window. It was brutal. It was morning. "You really are," she said.
His mouth tasted like ashes.
"How old are you?" she asked.
"What?"
"How old?"
"Old as Methusala."
"No," she laughed. "Not so young. Twenty-two, or three, I think."
"Twenty-three," he said, remembering.
"Amazing! Twenty-three, and never been bred."
"I have been...briefly."
"God, I'll bet it was brief! Minaret's bare breasts quivered before his eyes. Two pink pears tipped by tiny, grey-blue nipples. She must be cold, he thought. "Tell me something about yourself," said Minaret, stroking the hair on his chest.
How had this happened? He'd gotten drunk and gone to bed with a woman. He'd done something spontaneous, something human. It gave him a headache. "What about some coffee," he said.
"Oh, you poor boy." Minaret leaned down, kissed him on the chest. "You're getting brown."
Yes, his body less like a white slug every day. "Coffee?"
"Alright, alright." Minaret bounced out of bed. She threw on a robe, and disappeared from the room. A minute later, P. heard pans rattling and Minaret singing:
Barely, barley,
Whip it all up fairly.
Jennie's got a blue nose,
Judy ate a cankered rose.
Barley, barley,
Whip it all up fairly.
How had it happened? Astrology...Mozart... She was going to show him something. I guess, he thought, she's shown me.
there's the raciest part in the story! however, i think the rest is fun. www.pbase.com/wwp/greece you're welcome to read for free.
pictures: www.pbase.com/wwp
poems: www.pbase.com/wwp/poems
enjoy.
5.
"You're very inexperienced," said Minaret.
She was leaning on her elbow, looking down at him. He had just opened his eyes. Sunlight streamed in a window. It was brutal. It was morning. "You really are," she said.
His mouth tasted like ashes.
"How old are you?" she asked.
"What?"
"How old?"
"Old as Methusala."
"No," she laughed. "Not so young. Twenty-two, or three, I think."
"Twenty-three," he said, remembering.
"Amazing! Twenty-three, and never been bred."
"I have been...briefly."
"God, I'll bet it was brief! Minaret's bare breasts quivered before his eyes. Two pink pears tipped by tiny, grey-blue nipples. She must be cold, he thought. "Tell me something about yourself," said Minaret, stroking the hair on his chest.
How had this happened? He'd gotten drunk and gone to bed with a woman. He'd done something spontaneous, something human. It gave him a headache. "What about some coffee," he said.
"Oh, you poor boy." Minaret leaned down, kissed him on the chest. "You're getting brown."
Yes, his body less like a white slug every day. "Coffee?"
"Alright, alright." Minaret bounced out of bed. She threw on a robe, and disappeared from the room. A minute later, P. heard pans rattling and Minaret singing:
Barely, barley,
Whip it all up fairly.
Jennie's got a blue nose,
Judy ate a cankered rose.
Barley, barley,
Whip it all up fairly.
How had it happened? Astrology...Mozart... She was going to show him something. I guess, he thought, she's shown me.
there's the raciest part in the story! however, i think the rest is fun. www.pbase.com/wwp/greece you're welcome to read for free.
pictures: www.pbase.com/wwp
poems: www.pbase.com/wwp/poems
enjoy.
