On Fire

About Me:

Give me you....give me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best; and I want the good wine, the swirl in crystal surrendering the bruised scent of blackberries, or cherries, the rich spurt in the back of the throat, the holding it there before swallowing.

Give me the lover who yanks open the door of her house and presses me to the wall
in the dim hallway, and keeps me there until I’m drenched and shaking, whose kisses arrive by the boatload and begin their delicious diaspora through the cities and small towns of my body.

To hell with the saints, with martyrs of my childhood meant to instruct me in the power of endurance and faith, to hell with the next world and its pallid angels swooning and sighing.

I want this world. I want to walk into the ocean and feel it trying to drag me along
like I’m nothing but a broken bit of scratched glass, and I want to resist it.

I want to go staggering and flailing my way through the bars and back rooms, through the gleaming hotels and weedy lots of abandoned sunflowers and the parks where dogs are left off their leashes in spite of the signs, where they sniff each other and roll together in the grass, I want to lie down somewhere and suffer for love until it nearly kills me, and then I want to get up again put on that old denim jacket and wait for you, yes you, to come over here and get down on your knees and tell me just how fucking good I look. Sinister-looking man with a face that only a mother would love: think of an ageing Portillo with a beard and you have my better-looking twin.
Sweetie at heart, though.
Nice conversation, great for dimly-lit romantic meals.
Better in those Welsh villages where the electricity supply can't be guaranteed.

Ideal Partner:

If you think I'm going to love you — you're right.
Clingy, over-emotional and socially draining man, 55 ish.
Once you've got me, you can never ever leave me. Not ever.
Prone to maniacal bursts of crying, usually followed by excitable and uncontrollable laughter.
Life is a roller coaster; you've just got to ride it, as Ronan Keating once said.

Other Interests:

Arts / Crafts, Museums / Galleries, Gardening, Music - Alternative, Politics, Literature / History, Cricket, Shopping, Travel / Sightseeing, Movies / Cinema, Food and Wine

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