Sexual Propositions
and a Giant Leech
I am in a bar at a resort with a lot of other people and am
sitting at a table with friends, wrapped in a towel. Eric Potter comes up and, standing behind me, slips his
hands down under the towel to cup my breasts. He makes lewd suggestive sexy remarks about having sex with
me and I am feeling aroused by his touch.[1]
Someone suggests skinny-dipping. I am standing on a dock (wooden walkway) with another woman
looking into the dark pond/lake.
The water is cold and somehow threatening and people standing around
naked are hesitant to go in. I
dive right in and immediately feel as if I have made a mistake. But I’m not sure what the mistake is,
and I swim out to the middle of the lake.
Suddenly, a giant leech the size of a boa constrictor
attacks me. It is black, with a
head like a planarian and a big mouth which is struggling to attach itself to
me, I fight with the thing, which is very very strong, and I am tiring and the
mouth, which I am trying to hold away, is getting closer and closer.
A boat comes up (a houseboat-like boat) and a woman with a
syringe and needle tries to subdue the giant leech. I am worried she will kill it, and even though I do not want
to be bitten by it, I don’t want her to kill it. She struggles and struggles and finally, the thing goes
limp. Friday, February 17, 2012
What does this remind
you of?
YIKES!
Sex! Unpleasant
and unwanted sex, rape.
Okay, starting at the beginning, Eric Potter was my second
lover and the one who broke my maidenhead. (OUCH!) Somehow
Peter Black did not manage to do that.
We had to stuff ice cubes up my crotch to stop the bleeding. (Eric is now an old, fat man in a
nursing home who says “he can’t get it up any more.”) (And I am an old, fat
woman!) L
The dark, threatening waters remind me of: sex, the
unconscious, nightmares, therapy sessions.
I rarely swim any more, because Keith doesn’t like to. I used to love to swim, and when I was
younger, would dive right in. Now,
on the rare occasions when I swim, I go in more gingerly.
The giant leach is shaped like a huge black penis—like a big
horse’s penis. The idea of being
attacked by a “giant penis” reminds me of rape and unwanted sex.
I used to see a lot of horses penises while doing my horse
research, and always wondered why women might want to have sex with them—didn’t
make sense to me. Too big! Some Russian Czarina, Catherine the
Great, was supposedly killed trying to have sex with a horse. What a horrible, crazy idea. L
(The claim that her death was caused by a sexual
incident involving a horse is a myth and apparently has
no basis.)[2]
It also reminds me of the time when a real boa constrictor
tried to kill me and Rachel, my boss, “rescued” me, after Bob ran out of the
building.
There was a period of time in my life when I lived in a
commune and went skinny-dipping with my fellow commune members and other local
hippies. I was never entirely
comfortable with it, although I do like skinny-dipping in safe places with a
single companion or alone.
The leech, going limp at the end, is also phallic. When the giant leech goes limp, the
threat is over.
I no longer go to bars often, except occasionally to hear
music (friends). I used to go
fairly often with friends when I was younger and one time, sitting in a bar
yukking it up with friends, I suddenly had an “epiphany” (or, in this case,
moment of clarity) that I wasn’t really
having fun, and I stopped going.
In what ways do I feel that I am making a mistake and am
going ahead anyway?
Ø
Over committing myself
Ø
Taking this poetry class[3]
Ø
Being too busy to work on and complete already
started projects.
Ø
The Rolandale House
Ø
Marriage (sometimes)(Though less and less often,
but still sometimes.)
Ø
Attempting to mother or not mother Graham.[4]
Finding a balance.
[1] I may be having more sex
dreams because I am getting less actual sex lately.
[2]
Although grossly overweight, Catherine loved men - a great many of them, in
fact - over the course of her 34-year reign. And then, it was rumored, she died
during a botched attempt to make love (if it can be called such a thing) to a
horse. The rumor may have been spread by Catherine's Polish enemies, who
resented her for annexing much of Poland. (On the list of European royalty's
leisure activities, "overrunning Poland" has historically been a
close second to "Sex.") At any rate, Catherine never had sex with a
horse, and one wonders why anyone felt compelled to make up such a story, since
her actual death was plenty humiliating. While straining on the toilet, she had
a stroke. (Like Keith’s first
wife, Florence.)(Hope I don’t go that way.) http://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/a-pain-in-the-royal-horse-5-sex-rumors-about-royalty/
Also confirmed in Wikipedia.
[3] I am vacillating between
feeling misunderstood and unappreciated and feeling worthless and incompetent
in this current poetry class. L It makes me want to give up poetry. Or at least poetry classes and
competitions.
[4] I had a really nice “bonding” time with Graham helping
him make a tie-dye T-shirt for his trip to Italy for the Aquarius song. We went
to the store together, picked out a kit, came home and I helped him fold and
tie it and explained how to dye it, and he did and it came out nice. Made me remember, miss and wish for the
time when he liked to sit on my lap and I felt closer to him. L
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