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Jennifer in Houston
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Jennifer in Houston |
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Daddy Goose38 Member
since 2010-09-04
Posts 430obama's a rice paper tiger |
I sit with Jennifer. We are nude, our limbs entwined. She tells me not to be embarrassed, That it’s okay, Because everything on the Internet is anonymous And we are in a virtual “place,” Not a real place. She … or, I guess, we … are in Houston, (or maybe the big server is in Houston) We listen to oldies on KILT, Or maybe we listen to KILT on the Internet … We sit on the “ground” and talk about this and that, And it is very relaxing and very natural. Then she says she has to go But I can go to an office to ask for her. I go to the office And she is already right there to greet me. She leads me to a room where a group has gathered. A speaker walks in to do a program. In a heavy Brooklyn dialect, He asks has anybody heard of RET? I raze my hand and say that, yes I have. That is rational emotive therapy by Albert Ellis. Then the speaker morphs into a strange oriental mystic Hocking some weird, eastern philosophy. It is on a rotating band or conveyer belt and it is sweet but dirty. I try to absorb the strange and alien church Or whatever it is And the speaker thinks I am interested. And so, he says … If you see The Buddha walking on the road, Uh … never mind. An old man from the audience says he will get back to me The old man says it is the speaker he is praying for. I tell him I was just feigning interest. He tells me that the speaker Prays on and exploits other people who only want to be happy. He says that they have to pay the speaker Twelve thousand dollars an hour. I walk past an air vent That is blowing air from Houston. It is a disagreeable blast of hot dirty air Reeking of oil and asphalt. I guess that’s Houston. So I guess we’re all … uh … here? And maybe as long as we are “here” it doesn’t really matter where “here” is? Or maybe it is “there” It might even be “somewhere,” where EBM is no doubt giggling at this, virtually, I mean. I virtually hear her virtual giggling in a virtual way through my web browser I mean brouser. Hahahahaha … |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Well, you are still in the nude, but you have company and you're on the Internet. |
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Eusta B. Mae Senior Member
since 2010-05-03
Posts 903 |
(Laughing) Oh Sweet Daddy! We are all naked on the paper here...But YOU celebrate the silly and that makes you dear to my heart. EBM |
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