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”Hello Alice. What do you want this time?”

”Surely Rob. That’s no way to answer a phone call. At least not mine.”

”Oh. Okay. Let me hang up and you can call again and I can answer in a fake british accent ‘Hello darlin’. How’s that sound?”

”Sometimes I wonder what I ever saw in you.”

”My disarming smile, my natural charm and out-of-this-world sex perhaps?”

Alice shuddered when she remembered the countless steamy sessions she had had with this man on the other end of her call.

”Yes, the sex… Too bad we had to part ways. Hope she gives it to you as good as I did.”

”Alice, I love you very much but if you called to…”

”Shit. Didn’t mean it like that love.”

*sigh* ”What do you want Alice?”

”I’ve got something for you. This could be big.”

”Not a cock and…

For whom it may concern,

Forge ahead until you can no longer bleed.

Fall in love until you can no longer dream.

Feed your eyes and ears with all the knowledge your fertile mind will allow in this lifetime.

For you are married to the earth and stars my friend, and they in turn are providing the festivities which embrace your wanting person every feverish moment and haunted hour.

Fill your tummy with sugars and sweets and swallow fine wines imported from other countries without forgetting to maintain your good health for as long as

Forever will last.

( This week I was unable to write my Wednesday post for many personal reasons. This poem is my personal mantra. I read it when I was an emotional angry teenager and it has changed my life)

He sat there, in his rover.  He’d sat there close to ten minutes already and he hadn’t moved an inch. He wondered, “What am I to do again?” He couldn’t seem to remember.  White noise on his radio was suddenly cut by his commanding officer’s voice, bringing him right out his daze. 

 “Bo, do you copy? Head back to base. Your mission is over. Bo? Bo, we need you to move…we’re losing night… Bo? Do you copy?”

“10-4, this is Bo. Heading back to base now.” he said gruffly.

Her body kept growing heavier; she lay limply across the front seat, her head nestled in his thighs. He didn’t want to move her. He did not understand why. He had never been here before. He could hear his rover’s tires plough the fine sand. Desert nights are cold, even so, he had beads of sweat all across his brow.  Anticipation…