he was reminded once again what it
was like to sit inside a convection oven looking out at a dull yellow sky coloured like
spoiled cotton
the skys filled with smoke from
the second worse fire season in Californias history TAKE THAT IN fire season he grew up in the Midwest where there were four seasons WinterSpringSummerFall he always began he
recitation of the four seasons with Winter it was to him the dominant season and who didnt like to be
dominated but then it was questions like that that procured his best adventures shy ones at some orgy they were welcome the doorBeat
it! waste of fuckin time let them play together in the hallways eat the
uneaten room service food placed in front of Do Not Disturb doorways placards hung from doorknobs he could relate he liked what was hanging from his knob
the sky wasnt unlike
the skies over Los Angeles and Chicago and New York Gary when he was younger skies yellowed by exhaust belched from
tailpipes smokestacks blast furnaces
he played in a summer city championship
soccer game
white suburban boys handing ethnic
city teams their ass boys unjoined by blood
they played under radio
and televised health advisements that warned
citizens who had respiratory illnesses DO NOT GO OUTSIDE
they didnt have respiratory
illnesses
they wanted to knockoff the Croatians
at Hanson then beat ass northback home and party up their city victory
theyd beaten the Croaks earlier in
the seasonthey were undefeated
they won 3-0
they ascended to Highland Park
where one on the guys girlfriends lived
she wanted to throw them a party
if they won or lost
Grace that was her name she
was Phils girlfriend
he told Phil that when they got
up to her parents placeher parents owned a sprawling property on the Lake no disrespect to him but he was going to take Grace over his knee and spank hernobody should ever ever think they were going to lose ya think youre going to lose dont play
GRACE he snatched her up by the waist and took her down
towards the waterfront to a quiet stone bench sprawled her across his lap yanked up her skirtpulled down her panties and cracked her several bright
cracks on her beautiful ass
then he pushed her off his laprolling
her down his legs to the ground Never never Never think youre going to lose
she looked up at him
he didnt know if her blush was
embarrassment or anger or bemusement
By the way Grace you have a real fine ass I think I might owe you some new panties
some months later he had the
opportunity to thoroughly slowly scrutinise
her body
and spank her again
and spank her again
she kept calling
she didnt relent
I have no intentions of losing she
said
she learned a good lesson
early the next morning he woke
he could hardly breathe
he wheezed
he vomited
he called out sick to work
that night his parents came into
the bedroom he shared with his brothers
checking in on him
they told him that all his teammates
were down toosick as dogs they were all having
trouble breathing
they toked some weed
Grace shared some hash with him
they didnt smoke that much
they were warned it was poor air quality
it was outdoors for ChristsSake! why
wouldnt they flaunted their youth
in the wide open air Fuck em
he remembered
1905, Monday,
6 8. 18
1159, Saturday,
11 8. 18
Last Year’s Man Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNm9E73V9Y
