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Published here first for my loyal TxM6 Readers
About 80 percent true. It is my life opened.

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TEXAS STORIES
Map, Initiation, Ascension and Test
WAR AND PEACE IN AMERICA 1955-1968

LaGuardia Airport to Tyler, Texas is more than the sum of 
its air miles. 

When I was sixteen and a rising senior living in Paramus, 
NJ, I spent an innocent summer with my grandmother on my 
father's side in Tyler, Texas. 

Riding the crop duster DC-3 from Dallas, hot rusty 
hematite reds and lush golf course greens swept alongside 
the 100-mile glide between runways. 

I was truly innocent on that flight -- not just about 
sex, but how life stretched you faster than you could grow. 

Years later, I would compare that memory to the 
topography of Vietnam that ran through the tree line and 
below the canopy. I would think then, looking back at 
Tyler, when you fly with death, dreams are not fatuous.

 

TYLER TEXAS 
Tuesday, July 12, 1955

East Texas in 1955 was an ordinary place with people not 
too different from Bergen County, NJ. 

In Edgewater and Paramus New Jersey, we were good white 
folks living on a beach facing a great city island. One 
bridge joined us, and that same bridge stopped us from 
knowing the other side of the creek. Like many war babies 
I was bound by accidental roots and dishonest assumptions 
about race, sex and war. 

I lived in a town called "wild turkey," that prided 
itself on not having any gooks or niggers as residents. I 
played on Little League baseball teams that had no Jackie 
Robinson and no one, no matter what their pretensions, 
that would become a star athlete. 

Downtown Tyler was different from today. Brick and mortar 
two-story buildings mixed with some post-war brick and 
glass. I am sure there was that famous architectural 
landmark, a Sears building, but I don't remember it. 

Stepping up and into the summer the sidewalks and macadam 
streets held the heat. Every step burned your feet. To 
escape I sat endlessly in family cars riding shotgun or 
playing the good, but never quiet, nephew in the back 
seat. I memorized the signs along the road. I can almost 
count the moments after the car turned or didn't. I 
wanted new roads. 


WEATHER REPORTS

All day the heat grew; at night, it never seemed to cool. 
I realize now after South Vietnam and Laos that the air 
was just catching its breath. 

On Sunday we went to church. Sometimes we attended a 
revival. I was a Catholic Jewish boy in a Protestant 
America. My grandmother, when she took me to the holy 
rollers, told me not to be saved unless I really meant it 
and would be able to go to a real church at home.

She said, "Henry, you come from a line of barnstorming 
Iowa preachers. You're a good boy and you don't lie
about God."

I could hear my great, great grandfather Chapman Marshall 
in Cresco, Iowa "raising thunder" as the obituary said 
from 1906. I finally understood my love of language. Sex 
was the other. 

As a boy I heard an uncle on my mother's side once say at 
a famous gathering of the clans near Budd Lake, New 
Jersey "famous men had big peckers."


THE EDDY 

My great aunt, aunt, uncle or cousins drove many a night 
to fish at a slight river, an eddy. As a current of water 
an eddy moves contrary to the direction of the main 
current, especially in a circular motion.

Walking its soft bank hardly cooled. Sweating and 
itching, it seemed an artifact of a primeval moss and 
fern nightmare that trapped the landscape. I was told it 
was a theater for macabre murders although none were 
committed to the best of my knowledge. I am not sure what 
I thought, besides wonder, in 1955. 

Every time I hit the LZ in Nam, I connected to that eddy. 
Desire for death and survival was not unlike the drive of 
tadpole to a frog. Pacing river waters, kicking the 
sticks, fishing with my Uncle Darrel, I sang out of tune 
as I stepped over broken rocks and just missed cutting my 
foot on broken beer and soda pop bottles. I must have 
found half a dozen Trojans that I collected as balloons, 
blowing them up until my uncle took them away. Every few 
feet I'd measure my stubbed toes and mosquito bites to 
see how much of myself had been lost. 

In 'Nam, one day during Tet I lost somebody every hour.

Back at the eddy, breaking into tall weeds I tripped, 
pretending to escape the alien hoard of Buck Rodgers 
careening through the riverine scraggle. Squeezed in the 
uterus gooseneck of the sick mud that pickled between my 
toes, I was every monster movie ever made. 


MOSQUITOES 

In Texas, still a boy, I counted toes and kept a record 
of dead mosquitoes as I mashed them against the pine 
wallboard next to my bed. Their blood, my blood, ran like 
the serial murder of children through the dark abuse of 
the fist. With my graceful index finger I crushed them to 
knotted pine. Every scar and scab was a totem of an 
insect's failed adventure. Or had it already succeeded? 
We just didn't know the rites. 

Later, while I slept under an historic fan barely 
electric, I realized death gave me pleasure. No, I didn't 
kill dogs and cats. I was no Ted Bundy. 

As a medic in Nam, imaginary murders flushed my mind when 
my face was blood stained and my eyes flashing. I have 
never murdered anyone, but I imagined it. Haven't you 
once in your life done the same? Does that make us killers? 


SNAKE GUARDED EDDY 

After that first night on the eddy, I could imagine 
myself naked driving my body into the frenzy of a 
butterfly trance on that east Texas eddy. 

I dreamed I swam that snake-guarded eddy. I stepped out 
too far, ready to drown, not die. Off balance, when my 
internal music stopped, I knew that the skin of the earth 
had captured me. I would never be the same. 

My Pentecostal uncle by marriage, Darrel, was a good man 
who had no idea that a god other than his had taken me alive.

Sex was his evil, not mine. It coursed through my spirit 
driving my imagination like the fornicating flies and 
maggots, mosquito and larvae. 

Hard to imagine sex as a sin when everyone sought it, did 
it, and lied about doing it. As sex was hidden and 
forbidden, it never existed. Why does it seem that logic 
protects the surface of truth? I believe it, but don't 
understand it. 

Tyler in 1955 was rustic with tough tree branches. Not 
bucolic, not pastoral. It had a rough edge that could, 
under extreme circumstances, define in one part beauty 
and in another, pain. 

How could you know the truth about a place when 
everywhere you looked the signs said White Only? 

In Tyler, as everywhere, the gentle whorehouse rises next 
to the First Baptist church steeple. 

Tyler was a good myth, and I believed it. 

Everyone said the city rode a salt dome of oil. Imagine 
all that money floating upward and change raining down 
from heaven. It could have, but it was hard to believe 
that no one drilled the wells. I believed for that moment 
the myth was more accurate than logic could disprove. Oil 
rises, forcing you up higher on your toes. Impossible 
distances are accepted. 

Yes, I loved the lush greens, and the sickly swamps where 
frogs faked away at the noise. I remember humping at that 
tree line keeping track of the nests where snipers drown 
life. You could thrive up on your toes, stretching, and 
the swamp could force you higher above the moss. 

Fishing with grubs and spoons, on a Texas eddy at night, 
levitation was easy as catching lightning bugs. 



WAR AND PEACE IN AMERICA 1955-1968
Sunday, July 12, 1959

I grew up in Paramus, NJ during the 1950s. There were no 
black students at Paramus High School. I was one of 204 
people in the first graduating class of 1960. That is fact. 

In 1959, during the summer before my senior year, I 
laughed when my Texas grandmother said, "You stink 
like a nigger." 

In Tyler, Texas you could find Negroes as well-meaning 
white folks called them, but you had to look. They worked 
in the kitchen at the country club, but never as cook or 
waiter. They were made invisible. 


COUNTRY CLUB 

At the country club swimming pool, pink cheeks splashed 
and breasts fell out, making the water a collage of heads 
bobbing into a sparkling clean shimmer. 

In the noise of that play, water fights chilled the blank 
blue skies and intense moist heat of my Tyler summer. 

Walking out on the pool deck, no dark eyes tumbled into 
cannon balls on the surface of the noon white glare. No 
ebony life guards to blow the pale girls out of their one 
piece, heavily armored bathing suits from the arms of 
white boys. No deep-penetrating Afro- American or 
Hispanic muscle men, with deep V and muscular thighs to 
balance the hardheaded stares of white-boy football 
players with strong backs and crossed arms. 

Imagine two great walls facing each other, but only one 
wall was allowed to win. Jim Crow had fixed the game, but 
that would soon change.

That summer I asked myself, where did the black faces and 
dark eyes live that some newspapers said by omission 
didn't exist, while others talked about the "Negro problem." 

One weekend in August I found them, more invisible than 
oil beneath the surface of the Tyler streets. 

"Look downtown," one old white man said when I asked 
carefully where the coloreds lived.

"Maybe in your mama's kitchen," he spit when the laughs 
died, adding at the end, "or maybe back in Yankee land, 
where you better get before I kick your nigger-loving 
ass." 

As I started to leave, a fat man with thick hands said, 
"How about your daddy's bed." There were many dark eyes 
there, but when I saw them, or they sold candy on the 
street in front of the five and dime, there was a pause 
and returned blank stare. What are you doing here it 
silently said? Get out of here. I recognized 
instinctively that the rule ran both ways down the color 
of the street. 

I watched everything grow and growl with impossible and 
disintegrating boundaries. At sixteen how could I know 
what was real or imaginary? I didn't know some of it 
would change.

There may be a connection between my pursuit of intimacy 
and my first sexual experiments. I discovered that summer 
new ways to know myself in others.


GRANDMA KATE & CARLA

Grandma Kate was a large, stout woman, a practical nurse. 
She had an easy laugh and followed home-style Iowa 
preacher rules. She worked the best houses in white Texas 
caring for the young children of the rich doctors on the 
important side of town. 

That summer I tagged along with her, jostling the rich 
kids, straining their toys, swimming pools. Many of the 
homes where Grandma worked were full of great vistas and 
soft waterfall air conditioners. I admit I felt pampered 

In one doctor's kitchen curious I investigated the 
unknown black face of Carla, the cook. I marveled at 
Carla's huge breasts. I couldn't even think the word then 
without being nervous. When she rubbed them to clean the 
flour off her hands, she knew I was staring and she laughed. 

Carla was young, and her breasts simply got in the way 
when she walked. They did not hang down but poured 
forward. If you walked by, you got poked by one of them. 
When it happened she'd smile and say, excuse me. I would 
smile back, brush my hair from my eyes, and gaze to her 
black edges.

One night, as Carla dressed in the bathroom, I sneaked 
into the edge of the door of the next room. The bathroom 
door was open a crack, and I could see the expanse of her 
body. 

When Carla stepped out of the steam and mist her breasts 
were like brown mountains. I had wished for years that I 
was that black baby suckling in the National Geographic. 

After a week of peeking and playing eye tag, Carla came 
up behind me, and said softly, "I know what you are 
doing, and if you don't stop, I'm gonna tell your 
grandmother. Now get!" 

I ran away with my head down.

Later when I was almost asleep and Grandma was off 
playing canasta with her cronies, Carla just walked into 
my room in an open robe. I felt my throat close.

Dancing forward she rolled belly and mountains and fed me 
her sexy bread. 

"If I let you see it once, close up, will that be enough?" 

I stared at her eyes and smiled, and blinked, and reached 
for her extended hand. Carla must have been only twenty-
five, but any adult seemed ancient.

"We have to be quick, and you had better not tell a 
soul," she warned. 

Sitting down, I folded into her lap. She could have 
crushed me and I would have been happy.

"Now what do you want," pulling my head down. "You white 
babies want the same thing."

I said nothing. She was my master.

"You didn't know I just had a baby, do you?"

"No, I didn't see."

"Cannot bring younguns here. Don't pay to take care of my 
child. My sister's taken care. Brings the child once a 
day out back the cottage."

As I carefully played with her black hair, she rubbed the 
back of my hands extending fingers to measure hand 
against hand.

"You have large hands like Carla. Bet you have a big 
voice. I hear that high-sounding churchgoing voice. You 
be a fine man some day. Sing for Carla baby." 

As I sang Carla brought me to the edge of desperation. I 
had never felt such a pause, ache, or pressure to release.

Immediately I felt this rush from the back of my skull, 
and then two clinches, one release, and another throb, 
and I was at home in that black mouth with "Ramar of the 
Jungle". I would never escape. When she was done I 
climbed slowly down. I imagined her setting me down to sleep.

Next morning I found the sash from her robe and wound it 
around my hand. It had fallen between the pillows. Hiding 
it before Grandma came home, I casually walked back into 
the kitchen. 

Like changing a 45 record, Carla was almost back to 
normal. "Your grandma's out shopping," Carla warned. 

"You made Carla smile, last night. I don't know how you 
do it but I did. God I did. I brought you your robe; you 
left it in my bathroom. Tell nobody."

What my grandma called them, "nigger", had an awful 
sound. I hated that word and never repeated it. I find it 
hard to spell when I write it down to tell a story. I 
grew up that night in many ways.

When I was a freshman at Columbia a year later, a black 
teenager about my age smacked me alongside my head for 
what was nothing. I confused him when I didn't hit him back. 

He could see I wasn't afraid. I imagine he wondered why I 
didn't fight back. I knew he wanted an excuse to hurt me. 
Later I was angry with myself. It is also true that he 
barely grazed my cheek with his fist. 

More surprised than bruised, I didn't fully understand 
why he was mad. I hadn't done anything to him. It was 
what they call today a drive-by shooting -- that 
terrifying accident that just drops in your lap. 

In the end, you live and die like in 'Nam by your 
immediate wits. 

THE ADVENTURE

You might think I was obsessed with sex. I was. That 
summer I knew the heat of the rain and the relief of a 
rocking breast. There must be a connection between how 
the body and the mind change.

Years later in Vietnam, when I learned that the code name 
for the bombing of Vietnam by B-52s was "Operation 
Rolling Thunder" I looked up at the sky and imagined the 
clouds as Fauve's wild beasts.

Perhaps this is a bit of hyperbole, but I do remember 
that the clouds and heavy rain marked my hands making 
them tremble, just like the show of a supple breast or 
the sudden split of a vulva opening and closing like a 
morning glory. No bomb bay door, but the fall from that 
space through the canopy seemed endless until it struck.

In Texas the clouds merged from blue haze to gray to 
umber to black. At times they appeared as a maze. Other 
times they became a painting more Pollack than Monet. 

Peace and that surge of conflict razed the night to the 
day in a trembling of weather gone awry. It seemed then, 
as it does now, that weather affects our tempers, makes 
us more and sometimes less vulnerable to that hasty rage 
we assume when we are feeling weak while others seem strong. 

I would love to tell this to my uncle Darrel. He probably 
would not accept any of it because I was not saved. I 
believe our journeys together on the eddy saved my life. 
He showed me another temper that was never violent.

There seems to be one observation about families that 
extends beyond the diversity of culture. Boys need 
righteous men to show them how to be men. That word 
righteous is more powerful than the same word used by 
barnstorming preachers ravaging the saved and the damned.



THE ARCHEOLOGIST OF SMUT 1959

The Doctor's Daughters

Tyler, Texas: Wednesday, August 26, 1959 

At sixteen, sex was everywhere and anything, but I played 
innocent games. I had assorted girlfriends who let me 
kiss and feel, but not much more.

Intellectually, I imagined myself the archeologist of 
smut. I read every medical book imaginable. I copied 
pictures of the variety of our sexual parts. I framed 
with condoms and a cache of dirty pictures I found in the 
New York City subway. I sought anything that would take 
away that ache.

Starting with Peyton Place, I read the flea books, 
Victorian Lovelace and Grove press. I considered Playboy 
tame. 

Looking through my mother's drawers one day home "sick" 
from school I found actual photographs of my mother and 
father having sex. 

They were not the usual pinup shots. 

Intellectually and visually, I was not the innocent 
child. I was so full of sex I never stopped sharing it. 

At the club pool in Tyler that summer, I told shit 
against the fan jokes to the boyfriends of my young 
adult cousins. I mortified them, and they told my 
grandma, but little did they know that the whole time at 
the pool I wandered near the ladders of the pool to spy a 
tit or a hidden crease.

When I slept over at their house I would set up watch, 
waiting for them to come home on dates. I would pretend 
to sleep and imagine touching and undressing them as they 
made the front porch speak in the scrawl of
whispers and moans. 

One very hot night my younger cousin held her skirt up to 
her neck while she kissed this boy good night. I heard 
him come in his pants. I did as well.

Watching them, I remember the religious tract I had read 
in their fundamentalist church about the evils of pre-
martial sex. I thought at the time that I wanted to find 
it and read it again. Not having any of my usual reading 
available, at least it was about sex. 


HOMESICK 

Every Saturday I made my movie money mowing the grass for 
my grandmother. Cooking in the Texas sun I felt the heat 
swallow. That day when l cut the electric cord it coughed 
my heart back. I felt frizzed. My grandmother was angry, 
but then laughed when she saw I was not hurt. 

Grandma was not like my Aunt Joan and Uncle Darrel. She 
said she was saved in Jesus, but she had a more down home 
and relaxed way of expressing it. While we passed time 
playing Canasta, we had farting contests to see who could 
let the biggest one go.

That was a long time ago. Now, many of the details of my 
Texas summers are vague except for two teenage girls who 
lived next door to my grandmother. Allison was fifteen 
and her sister Debra was thirteen. 

Allison's breasts did not compare to Carla's, but as she 
shifted back and forth on one foot and danced off the 
porch into the breeze, she sang several times "out of a 
frog's mouth." I felt like my hand was connected to her 
body. Later that night I manipulated my fingers and felt 
the air. I wondered about the song and the satisfied 
smile. I didn't realize she sensed I was watching. When 
she told me later that she liked how I looked at her, not 
just then, but all summer, I was embarrassed and never 
asked her what the frog's mouth meant. 

Years later I compared that one memory with the opening 
scene of Deep Throat, where an older woman smoking a 
cigarette seduced the boy delivering the groceries. 


ALLISON, DEBRA AND JOHNNY

A week after I cut the lawn mower cord the first time, I 
sliced the mower cord again in two places. Grandma wasn't 
home. She had told me not to mow anymore. I did it 
because I wanted to show her. 

I cursed when I cut the cord like I heard this old 
scoutmaster do when he almost chopped his foot off
with an axe. 

I didn't know that Allison and Debra had watched my 
clumsy grass-cutting antics from the porch of their house 
with an older neighborhood guy, Johnny, who at seventeen 
seemed more a man. 

Debra laughed and eagerly climbed over the fence, 
vaulting it to ogle the shattered power cord. Allison 
followed her sister but opened the gate. She was holding 
Johnny's hand but dropped it and refused it back when she 
came close. 

Debra teased, but Allison asked Johnny to help me fix
the cord.

I was jealous of him until he had actually fixed it --not 
just doing it, but showing me how, explaining what he
had done. 

He pushed, testing it. I let him do half the yard 
before he quit. I had watched him drive his car too fast 
around the corners jealous of his daredevil James Dean mask.

I didn't take credit for fixing the cord. I told Grandma 
about what had happened. She said Peter's boy Johnny is 
good for you. You need an older brother. You don't have 
much of a father. I sure wished you lived down here all 
the time, but your mother never let you and your dad is 
off chasing skirts and getting drunk. I knew it was true, 
but I was surprised that she had said it about her son. 

Nothing more happened that day and Grandma wasn't mad. 
Johnny seemed to have taken an interest and asked me to 
come over and help him work on his '49 Chevy. 

After a few days of grime and grease, Johnny found out 
that I knew more about girls and how their bodies worked 
than he did. He was surprised when I told him things he 
had known and done. We were opposites. I was all theory 
and he was completely practice. He also taught me more 
about cars than I ever knew about sex from books. 

Next week, when it was too hot to work in the afternoon, 
Johnny confessed that he and Allison and Debra had done 
it together. I thought he was bragging.

He told me he liked Debra more, because she was fearless, 
but he needed another guy for Allison. "I know she's 
stuck-up," he said, but he asked if I would come with him 
next time. Adding at the end that Allison thought I was cute.

He asked if I would help a buddy out, treating me like I 
was almost a brother. Maybe Grandma was right. I was 
sixteen and he was a much older seventeen. I suspect my 
hormones hadn't quite caught up. 

Next day, we knocked on the back door and the maid let us 
in. The girls were giggling and the maid said, "I don't 
know if I should do this, I have my afternoon off today, 
and I promised your mama."

She gave in when Allison whispered in her ear.

Inside, Johnny asked for a beer, and Allison sneaked one 
in from the kitchen and later brought many others when 
the maid announced she was leaving. We drank and Johnny 
smoked. The girls wore thin tee shirts and identical red 
short shorts. 

We didn't waste any time after that. Debra got the cards
and said, "The game is strip poker. Are you all in?" 

Debra lost first. Quickly, she pushed her pants down and 
up, more brazen than coy.

"What a fucken tease," Johnny said. The real game
had started. 

After the second hand, when I lost my tee shirt, Debra 
ran back towards what I assumed was her bedroom.

When Debra came back she wore her mother's silk nightgown 
and fancy high heel shoes and nothing else. She had also 
expertly applied very dark red lipstick and eye makeup. 

You could see her slight chest and the dark hair of what 
Johnny constantly called pussy but the shocking color of 
the lipstick made her seem sophisticated.

Johnny laughed, but Allison, with more the tone of 
parent, told her to stop acting like a baby. 

Debra laughed and sat down hard in Johnny's lap. When he 
kissed her Debra threw one leg up and you could
see everything.

Caught up in the craze, and feeling my second beer, 
trying to keep up with Johnny, when I lost, I pulled my 
pants down and up just as fast. 

"Another fucken tease," Johnny said. 

"Why do you care if Henry's a tease, Johnny," Debra 
mocked kissing him and smearing lipstick on his chest. 

After the next hand, Johnny lost. He stepped out of one 
leg of his tight jeans, and caught up in them, Debra 
pulled them off his legs. She threw them across the 
room to make a statement. 

I lost my pants and underwear in two quick hands. Debra 
made Johnny and me stand beside each other so she could 
measure us. 

Taking out a tape measure from the maid's sewing box, 
Debra and Allison, shy at first, pushed us together so we 
touched. Debra wrapped the tape around them, and 
playfully tied them into a bow. Having too much fun 
rolling and unrolling the tape, she never reported the 
results. Her determination reminded me of Carla. 

Debra was not impressed with my size. She looked at me 
close and laughed.

"Don't worry, it'll grow up," and she watched it bounce 
when she pushed down in it. 

Strange, but her attitude helped us relax. 

Losing another hand, I took my shirt off and was 
completely naked. 

Allison lost the next two. She pulled her shirt off but 
hesitated about her bra.

I tried to imagine Allison completely naked. 

Johnny warned her not to chicken out. 

Allison turned her back but laughed. She didn't seem shy. 
She said she never took orders from anyone especially boys.

"Take off your bra," Debra told Allison. "Show them your 
knobs. Want me to help you?" 

"Yes," turning her back, Debra unsnapped Allison while 
Johnny and I watched. I have never seen anything so 
beautiful as those perfect breasts.

"God, they are great," I said too loud

Allison caught my almost shy glance and smiled.

Debra said. "Give me a chance, but let me tell you about 
smarty pants sister. 

"Last month she walked outside in the back yard at 3 AM 
topless and ran up to Johnny's window in the garage where 
he slept. She told me she just wanted to wake him up with 
her tits. He wasn't there but she shook them anyway."

"I did not. She's making it up," Allison glared at Debra.

"You did too." Debra said, louder.

After this interlude, Allison refused to take her pants 
off, pulling them up when Debra tried to make her take 
them off. 

Johnny sitting next to Debra, but no longer entwined, 
changed the mood again by playing with himself. 

Watching him go at it, nobody cared that Allison had 
chickened out. Debra grabbed Johnny. Allison sat on the 
stool in front of him. We watched him unroll it as he 
peeled back the head. His cock erect was different than 
mine. I knew a few men who were not circumcised, but I 
had never seen one. 

When I asked about it, Debra said, "that's because he is 
not Jewish like you Henry. All Jewish boys get 
circumcised, dummy." 

"I am not Jewish. I am Catholic," I whispered to myself. 
Nobody cared.

I looked closely at Johnny's cock until he pulled it away 
asking if I was queer. I said of course not, but that was 
not the first time I felt uncomfortable with the word "queer." 

Allison, noticing my distress kissed me, saying that she 
didn't like people who called people names. 

I have no idea why Allison picked me that day, but I 
heard Debra say in the background to Allison that it was 
"her turn." 

Allison told Debra I like Henry much more than I could 
ever like Johnny.

"I like him because he seems to know a lot more than I 
do. He's smart," Allison told her sister nodding in my 
direction.

I looked up at Allison and smiled and she, embarrassed 
that I had heard, turned back to her sister and then 
suddenly after a moment reached out with her hand. 

When I heard her say that word "smart," I was still 
frozen in place. I hesitated and she came over to me 
putting her arm through mine and taking my hand we walked 
back to Debra and Johnny and sat down as a couple. I felt 
as if I had broken Bannister's four-minute mile.


NO MORE GAMES

We got dressed and undressed, hugged and kissed, played 
cards, and I felt Allison's knobs, got increasingly hard, 
pushed and prodded by Debra who managed to play with both 
Johnny and I at the same time. 

Allison screamed at her to let go of me, and she said no, 
but did. I followed Johnny who was then looking closely, 
fervently at those silken lips Debra had brazenly opened. 
She had sparse dark hair. That was the first time I saw 
the black hole of a woman's sex. It drew me inside.

Innocently, I said to Debra, "Is that your tickler"? 

Debra said that it was called "a clitoris" or a "clit". 
"If you must know. I rub it every day so it gets big like 
the ones in my father's books." 

I told her I read the same books. 

When I said that, Allison came up and leaned over all of 
us, and whispered that she had one too, and if I would 
forget about Debra's she would show me, hitting me with a 
small pillow and laughing as we gathered inside a human 
hive.

The couples divided, moving almost into separate rooms. 
The games were over. 

Pulling Allison down, I asked her to show me and she kept 
her promise. 

It looked different from the books but the same. I had 
not seen much of Carla as we were in the dark.

Amazed I marveled to Allison how her petals opened as she 
pulled the crease apart opening the pink center like 
layers of fluted waves. As I rubbed the face of her sex, 
I explored myself.

Just as I stopped, Allison squealed no and kissed me like 
I had never been kissed. I felt as if I were held under 
water, but instead of fearing suffocation, I found I 
could breathe by taking turns being active. 

Carla had taught me a few things, but I was a boy to her. 
With Allison like Carla sex engendered play and tenderness.

Moving away from the window, Allison danced down the 
hallway twirling. When she came back she held her own 
long flowing nightgown, not one of her mother's. 

It was silk but not like the Fredericks of Hollywood 
catalogs I collected. It was not elaborate like the one 
Debra had worn.

"I want to wear this," she said. "I want to be special. I 
dreamed I would meet a boy I could share words."

Standing there, three feet away, legs together, she 
looked like a Renoir painting and not a lifeless drawing 
in an art or medical book. She did not resemble any of 
the stick models in the Sears underwear catalogue.

Impatient and unsure I moved towards her, but she backed 
away a step. "I really want to put this on."

I helped her with the long top but she threw the panties 
on the couch after a long stand up kiss. Stepping back 
from her for a second, looking at her dark eyes, straight 
back, proud head and rare but beautiful face, she was 
more elegant than any pinup model in a lingerie catalog.

Looking me straight in the eyes, not away like before, 
she asked without speaking, what we both wanted and sat 
down on this convertible couch that she quickly had 
unfolded right before my eyes. That shocked me more than 
I could say. Caught in my unspoken lie, I had no idea 
what to do next. Expecting her to know, I felt uneasy. 
When I hesitated again, Allison giggled when I told her 
the truth and said, "I don't know rightly either but I 
like it so far." 

I touched her slowly and tenderly instinctively finding 
every pause and kiss between sighs; she suddenly pulled 
my hand away. 

"That feels too good," she said.

"I love the feel of your skin under the silk."

"I might want too much. I can't do that."

I kissed her silent, told her too quickly that we can do 
other things. 

Gathering her, I touched her belly, cupping her mound, 
crooking a finger inside, like I had seen in those photos 
in my mother's drawer. 

I confessed that I had done something this summer that I 
really liked. 

Not understanding what I proposed, she kissed me harder. 

"We'll do it like the great books," she said. "I will be 
Emma and you can be the Pierre or Sir Lawrence. 

With that, we both heard Debra and Johnny humping making 
rough noises. 

"Would you do it like that," Allison asked without 
turning. 

I didn't look and said nothing. I kissed her and kept my 
promise.

Pulling her down to the floor, I lifted her legs up and 
apart, and stood there wondering if I she would let me 
kiss her there. Answering, Allison pulled me down by my 
shoulders, resting my head on her belly. 

"Please," she said. 

I opened her lips with my mouth. I licked away from her 
lips and teased with kisses, finally letting my mouth 
push, I exposed the trembling. I did it with the softest 
touch. 

Allison pushed me back, shaking her head, stopping my 
mouth, and said that it was too much, too hard. I 
softened but insisted much more gently and with another 
kiss, she pushed my head harder into her legs full, 
gasping, and at that moment when Allison pulled my hair I 
pulled up and I watched for a moment Johnny with Debra 
like it was a movie far away. 

Allison's hands were in my ears, mouth, lips, helping, 
guiding, shaking her head frantic, closing her eyes 
tighter and then screaming when she started to roll 
under. I refused to let go. With a final deep swallow 
Allison almost stopped breathing. 

When I stopped, thinking it was over, she pushed my head 
closer, "don't you, no, you can't." 

I returned until she pushed my head up to kiss me long 
and tenderly, as she tasted herself on my mouth.

"Oh my," she said.

Half an hour later, she rubbed the head of my cock slowly 
memorizing the sculpture of the head when I asked what 
she felt.

Fascinated at the end, I remember combing Allison's pubic 
hair with my fingers. While I licked and touched she 
closed her eyes, but wouldn't let me do what Johnny had 
done with Debra. I never asked her if she had done it 
with Johnny.

"There's no time," she said.

I listened but didn't immediately stop. I knew Allison 
liked how I had touched her soft hair. As long as I 
accepted the boundary, she explored until we both got up 
from the bed almost at the same time.

Folding the bed up I imagined us later as adults. Perhaps 
we would be visiting as married children do their 
parents.


SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL 

At the door, Allison said, "come back tomorrow, please." 

I started to leave. Allison walked back up the stairs 
into the house, showing the shift of her breasts as she 
did all summer. Smiling back she let them rumble under 
that absolute white tee shirt. 

"Wait," she yelled.

I turned back, running back halfway up the stairs, asking 
with my eyes if she would shake them again. 

"Don't go yet," she said. 

"Shake them like you did for Johnny." 

Pulling her tee shirt off, standing by the front door, 
not caring who saw, Allison shook them furiously, 
giggling while I almost fell down the stairs.

"I saw it in a dirty movie," she said. "My daddy's got 
one. I promised myself I would do that one day for a boy 
I really liked."

With that she turned and was gone.


NEXT MORNING

"We're going to Dallas today," Grandma said. "I just got 
a call on a job. You'll get the plane for New Jersey 
there. I don't have time to fuss with you. Say good-bye 
to your friends and be home by noon." 

I never got a chance to say goodbye to Allison. The maid 
handed me a note as she smiled almost knowing too much.

"I am sorry about this morning. I had to baby sit my 
nephew. Be here at 2 PM. Mother will be out all night 
with Daddy in Dallas. Debra will be at the movies with 
Johnny. The maid is going out. Come here and tell me a 
story you have never told anyone. I think I love you. "

I wrote Allison from New Jersey. She told me she knew 
when she saw my bike was not in the carport. We wrote 
letters weekly for almost a year. I talked with her on 
the phone several times until my mother stopped the 
expensive calls. 

When I didn't go back to Tyler that next summer, she 
wrote and told me she had a boy friend in the army and 
next year she would attend Tulane.

I heard from my Uncle Darrel when I was a medic in 
Vietnam that Allison was studying to be a doctor and had 
married a local celebrity. He said it was published in 
all the papers. Your aunt thought you might want to know. 
When Darrel mentioned in the letter how proud he was of 
my patriotism, I felt empty but I cried.

That was more than thirty years ago.

I have had many dreams about that missed afternoon. What 
If I had kissed Allison good-bye or made love? Perhaps 
what we did would not have matched the fantasy.

What if my mother had let me live with my grandmother in 
Tyler? Would I have graduated from Columbia? Would I have 
published poetry? Would I have been able to write this 
story that Allison foretold?

Maybe I would have become a rich oilman or a cowboy and 
broken my neck on a bucking Ford stock car. Maybe I would 
have died in Vietnam.

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