he walked better reading
he needed only to lift his
eyehave it snag on something and thensuddenly he was out of his element
crossing a parking lot he
glanced upleftright for cars not looking for casual pedestrians the glanceright hooked him
jaguar
spots
a
tight top
hed been a sucker for jaguar
spots since he saw one as a boy stalking its cage back and forth and back and
forth at the Brookfield Zoo
its quiet dignitysteady stalk impressed
him but it was the beauty of its skin
that drove him nuts he was a little
disturbed when his mother told him the jaguar was a male then it didnt bother him it was another species wasntit cats were so damn androgynous he learned the term later
boys and girls arent taught androgyny they almost have to fall on their face over
it to learn for themselves curriculum whether at school or home sticksfast to its prejudices
seemingly refusing to trust the innate intelligence of children born tabula rasas scribbled-all-over-with-coloured
chalk rascals
in and out of school he was politely
referred to as a rascal though he
preferred the other termshonest words adults muttered under their breaths he wasnt malleablewasnt iron to be
heated up and poundedmolded into shape
into appeasing shapes
speaking of appeasing shapes jaguarskin on ffuull breasts pressed together
jiggling cleavage
a fragrant chasm a yearning
then like the proverbial
cherry-on-top the spots clinging to a caramelcoloured
cinnamoncoloured woman ffuull-bodied slender waist ffuull hips
quickly dropping his eyes back
into his book he still saw hersaw her strideswas mesmerised by the potent
potion she exuded that stuck him like a dart from a blowgun
the lettersthe words laughed and ran
aroundacross the open pages like children at recess
he couldnt remember what he was
reading
he placed his finger in it as a
bookmarker
closed the book
took one more glance
the second screamed on top of its
lungs confirming his first
a
ffuull body flaunting jaguarskin
breathtaking
he walked in a pleasant dazewalked
with his two glances walking with him and absently as he crossed the street he
might have hoped if he could it wasnt against traffic and thereby depending on the vaguerythe kindness
of strangers that it might be extended
him and they didnt run him over he
wouldnt have felt it and he be trouble
trying to dig him out of their grillwork and tires tread
jaguar spots
had an uncommon effect on
him
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