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- Review: 10
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- Well, today is another gray and rainy day in this town.
- Kind of makes you think that life is nothing but a succession of shadows and
- gloom, dark clouds and chilly winds, interspersed with the promise of a little
- sunshine now and then to maintain enough of a fiction so everyone keeps
- going. Gray and cold. Old and fray. Wet and chilly. That's how the day looks.
- That's how I feel. That's what this day makes me feel if I'm immersed in
- reality.
-
- Good thing that I still can dream and fly. And it's always harder not to
- wander away. To warmer places. To sunnier places. To places in which I can be
- whoever I dream of being. To places in which I can meet the woman I want at
- will.
-
- If I look through the window I can see her walking. Funny thing. I haven't
- seen her face, ever, and yet here she is: smiling, saying nice things in a
- voice that's caressing me, full of sweet overtones.
-
- "Hi. How are you?"
- "You look as if you need a break. Would you like to have a cup of coffee
- with me?"
- "Well, we can go to this coffee shop, close to my place"
- "So, what are we waiting for? Let's go"
-
- And all of a sudden, we are neither in this time, nor in this town. We're
- somewhere in the middle of a dream, looking at each other, sipping Capuccino
- and talking of our lives. We're frozen in time. Words coming and going without
- a finish line. Words coming and going, dancing with the music of our eyes,
- following the rhythm of a more intimate connection. Here we are: the first
- man and the first woman, repeated ad infinitum. The first blood and the first
- heart beat. Always the same and yet always new.
-
- Her face is changing with the slow movement of the moon. Her words are
- wrapping me with the laces of rainbow. Her eyelashes are hypnotic. Her
- mouth is more than tempting and this is not a coffee place, this is a forest
- and she's casting her spell. I look but I want to see. I see but I want to
- dream. I dream but I want to have. Her words are falling and they sweep me.
-
- I've played the game of seduction many times, but every new look, every
- promise of flesh anew, every new whisper of the garden of wantonness washes
- out my old sins. It's me, fresh, again. It's my skin without memories, without
- owners, without repeats. I'm a virgin one more time. Did I say that it's
- funny?
- Well, it is. I haven't seen her. I know nothing of the space her body
- occupies in time, the space that her contour steals from the air. The space
- that her eyes cut from the light. And yet she's making me dizzy with needs
- that I never knew I had. I'm Adam, I'm Tao, I'm Gilgamesh and Ra. Sex is being
- born with me. Sex will die with me. Sex is her name. She is the night that
- holds me and nurtures me. She is the night that will bury me. Sex is her name.
-
- Suddenly, we are not in the coffee place anymore. We're in her room. And
- there's music being played from some old record. Her body strokes mine as we
- try a few languid, lazy dancing steps. As in a Humphrey Bogart's movie, I hold
- her, feeling the softness of the naked flesh of her back. I hold her and
- feel the warmth stream of her breath in my cheek. She's in my arms, devoid
- of a will other than the will of feeling. I softly lick her earlobes, to
- taste the sweet flavor of her fresh skin. I feel the voice of lewdness
- growing in the back of my neck and traveling throughout my body. I sense the
- pinch of desire nesting in my groin. Possession is the name of this painting.
- Lustful strokes from an old Dutch master's brush. How can I want her so madly,
- so deeply? I need to melt in her. To be in her. Doesn't she see that I'm
- hurting? And my only relief can only come from her wet flesh, from the deep
- of her sex, from her scented juices and oozing tissues.
-
- But I don't want to surrender to this single urge. I don't want to retreat
- after a burst of heat. I want to revere her body and soul forever. I want to
- explore her every cleft and nook with my lips and my tongue, and my fingers
- and my bones. I want to knead her muscles with my avid hands, pursuing the
- harmony of relentless passion. One hour, and another, and another, until time
- goes away with its sad-filled rhymes.
- No. I don't want to abandon myself to orgasm. I want to keep the feelings
- flowing, unstopped. I want to lay the fabric of pleasure at her feet, as a
- magic carpet that will take us to ancient Bashra, in the domains of Haroun-al
- -Raschid or Scherezade or Al-Manzur. Traveling in thin air. Swirling, twisting
- , flowing, softly falling and never reaching the sands of extinction.
-
- Overwhelmed by our senses, simmering in carnal consumption, half way between
- the dream and the reality of our bodies. That's how I want to take her, that's
- where I want her to lead me. To the constellation of her breasts, to the
- black holes of her chin, to the heart of her warmer, inner fantasies. I
- want to be an astronaut over her limbs, a diver in her pores, a climber on
- her hips. I want to melt and become jelly fish in the deep of her vagina. I
- want to trace the stars spread on her hair. I want to suck her sex juices
- and kiss her soul out of her mouth. I want to be hers, in her, for her.
- I want her to take me. To swim in my veins. To join me. To come to make a
- splash in my blood and in my semen, in the fluids and essences of my being, in
- the fluids and essences of my thoughts.
-
- And then I dream of death striking, taking us exhausted, satisfied, wholesome,
- full of pulp and languid tissue, to the island of void.
-
- Now, there's no room. There's no coffee place. There's no love left. Just a
- gray, rainy day. Just a bunch of feelings and longings. She has no face, no
- legs, no hands and her spirit comes back to being a ghost. Sand blown away
- by a gust of wind. I haven't seen her, ever. I don't recognize her voice.
- I don't even match her self and my desire.
- There's just rain, cold wind, and dark clouds. No space. No place. No room.
- Kind of makes you think that life is nothing but a nightmare, only bearable
- if you stop dreaming.
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