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importantly, realistically, into me, with no foreplay but an intense smile,
and no drug other than grass and desire, because we both had clicked into
the “whatever” of the perfect moment, and I was glad I had hosed out a
couple of hours before, receiving his big fist on his powerful arm driven by
his tectonic torso and his intense face. He wanted me to cum. Maybe his
game was harvesting cumshots from as many guys as possible. Sometimes
a hardon is hard to come by during a butt trip, but his drive summoned
up all my cooperation, and I came to please him, and myself with him,
the two of us connected fist to ass.
Tennessee Williams’ Blanche says, “Sometimes there’s God so
quickly.”
And as fast as I came, he leaned over and kissed me, turned and
walked off into the crowd. Two other men, witnesses to the collision,
unhooked my ankles, and I had to make the only crucial decision one had
to make at the Mineshaft: whether to go upstairs to the bar to reload for
a second round, or to head to the street hoping that, among the butchers
in white shouldering bloody carcasses of meat, I could shout, “Taxi.”

It was always beautifully symbolic to me
that gorgeous sides of fresh red meat
were hanging from bright hooks
outside the warehouses around the Mineshaft.
And, oh, what a gift it was
in those years to be able to be meat
every once and awhile
in a lifetime surrounded by people
so moral and ignorant they think
it is a bad thing: this enfleshment,
this incarnation of self,
this becoming flesh that is,
well, the actual very heart of Christian theology.
I always hear of neo-religious people
talking about how physical sex
led them to spirituality.
I’m talking about how physical sex
leads to animality.
After all, I am equal parts
meat and spirit
and I have never minded celebrating either.
In the sanctuary of the Mineshaft,
the word was made flesh.
And for a writer, what could be better.

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