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Since telling this story to the boys the night of my birthday, the deep guttural aggressive enunciation "Take it!" has become our stock phrase. Quilling Me, Not Softly Last night Matt, Trevor, Kentaro and I went to see "Quills", the movie about the Marquis de Sade. Brilliant! A truer, more potent version of "Chocolat". Gruesome, spell-binding, polymorphously perverse. The late 18th-century writer, de Sade, imprisoned in a lunatic asylum for his pornographic, sexually-violent writings, cannot stop scribbling his stories. And he too has a heart; he too can fall in love. I am not some big S&M queen, top or bottom; defining one's sexuality along those lines would be as silly, methinks, as any other rigidity. But as the above story shows, I have tasted some of the magic these dark fantasies cast, and am creatively disturbed by what it all might mean. The accoutrements leave me cold: the leather, the butch words (if cliched), the toys. But there is something else--some animalistic rage--that can leak out; a fantasy-scorch, a shedding flame. Forgetting or remembering? Crossing over? Necessary Words, Saliva and Shapeshifting Home on my couch by candelight, my dick said to jump Kentaro. Another voice said, talk first. Three is a magic number. Lunging at him for the third time without a clarifying conversation would be so wrong. I said I wanted to talk. Kentaro apologized for how poor a conversationalist he is. The language barrier. I said nonsense. He heard that. How I enjoy our talks. Then we made a doosey of a one. I reiterated my standard but true line, spelled out at our first coffee date: I'm enjoying him, getting to know, having sex with. He's only in town another few months and besides I'm not usually the marrying kind. Friendship friendship friendship. Was that okay? "I'm not used to talking like this. This is good for me," he said. Temporary clarities emerged. He was used to the polygamous thing, liked what was happening, felt a little jealous and insecure, liked my candor, saw a space for ongoingness without the white picket fence. Soothing to tongues and ears. A connect. But hey, I said to myself, you've not challenged yourself yet with any of your words. So I said listen, there's more. I got out of the habit of building anything with anybody through sex, back then. So it's scarey for me eh? I was nervous last time, a second time, what it would mean. It's a stretch, this thing between us, an opportunity. So glad I pushed more words out into the candlelight. I watched his brown eyes suck on them. There was more of me there then. And more of me there in bed as I sucked his tongue dry, grabbed hold of his wrist and crooked his arm around his head. Limb-locked isosceles, he was trapped, powerless to evade my sadistic chewing sucking lick of his lips and cheek and nipple and armpit. Resistance was futile and only part of his story but he needed to try. As I splayed his legs into a silky taut line of flesh. As my hands forced this calisthenic polygon from him, as my tongue bisected his shapely shape. As his angles were so right. As I became the hands tracing caressing squeezing smacking bouncing off his lush circles. I was--we were--an inexhaustible geometry. Shapes and possibilities and points of intersection. And there was more of us there, drawing on and with.
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