Thursday, January 31, 2013

PUSHING BACK ON LOVE…



 

an hour into his love got me half-through a bottle of loneliness

the night conspired but promise leant an exit plan

the bottle spent… I ran,

 

i fled into a lonelier place that pooled the image of my face

against a darkening sea of evasive policies

to set my spirit free,


 

i was haunted by the happy clamour of my insolence to love

i mocked it’s wrath when I emerged the stronger man

and now i know i can….

 

Written by D. Vollin

Monday, January 28, 2013

TOP TEN VALENTINES DAY PARTIES




What do you mean you have no current plans for this 2013 Valentine’s Day?  Are you kidding?  Are you trying to scare me?  Well try this one for size, even if you plan to spend this 2013 Valentine’s Day with yourself you count as your own handsome Valentine!  So don’t let me hear you say that anymore, this time say confidently,



“I have the most luscious plans to spend this 2013 Valentine’s Day with a devilishly handsome and passionate man who genuinely cares about me and will fuss over and pamper me as if I were the only man on earth!” 


I’m going to ask you to practise saying that again or until you start to feel comfortable with loving yourself just that much.  Who’d have thought you’d be dating yourself?  Who’d have thought you’d be dating yourself on, of all days, Valentine’s Day?  Well, dating one’s self is actually not a bad thing as long as you do not lose sight that no matter how handsome you are, no matter how much others try to tempt you to spend time with them on this amorous day, no matter how many preemptive gifts of candy, jewelry, champagne, caviar and other fine things begin to clutter your front door stoop and mailbox you have to remain true to the one true love of your life, the one who’s been there for you when everybody had given up or forgot…. Stop fighting it, you can do it! Go on and say it!  It’s you…You’re the prize!  Yes you handsome… you!  So as soon as you can bring yourself to come to terms with just how wonderful you are I suggest that you go through all of those Valentine’s Day offerings and make up your goddamed, indecisive mind who you want to spend this 2013 Valentine’s Day with!  You only have a few days left and every minute another sexy hunk gets taken off the market!  Go on and do it Man! Make this thing happen.  Summon your macho, sexy superhuman hunk powers and use them for good!  Make somebodies day, even and especially if it ends up being your own….   But worst case scenario if you really took my ad seriously and decided to spend this 2013 Valentine’s Day completely alone, pampering yourself  with all the earthly pleasures and creature comforts a man could dream of… the least thing you could do is invite or even better treat a BROTHA to that great “Bonfire Of The Vanities!” you have planned…



OK I know this article was supposed to be a self-help article focused on planning and executing a perfect Valentine’s Day that you would remember for the rest of your life but when did I ever stick to a topic?  I know I was supposed to offer suggestions for the perfect Valentine’s theme, outfit, rendezvous and retreat but I did that last year and nobody listened!  So this year I’m taking a new approach to the whole business of finding that special date for Valentine’s Day and making his heart spin 365!  I’m not going to try to convince you to surprise him or collaborate with him on that special date.  I’m not going to ask you to purchase special silk and satin boxers and fiendishly sexy men’s lingerie to show off after you peel out of your brutishly debonair Valentine’s Day ensemble. 


 I wouldn’t dare ask you to play specially selected music or buy new satin sheets or expensive bubble bath, or massage oils because we already discussed that in last year’s essay.  And just because we’ve already fully vetted the concept of cooking something special just for, “Him”, if only a ridiculously extravagant and erotically scintillating dessert or edible bodywear I’ll not even mention it this year.  What do I take you for anyway a fool?  How many times do I think I have to mention to shower with that especially masculine body scrub and follow up with that mango or chocolate body butter just before spraying on that cologne with the most testosterone laden aroma you could ever attempt to hypnotize a man with?  No! No! You definitely should not have gone ahead and ordered those hot, manly bikini briefs with the matching tee and hat! Are you trying to get something sexual started!  Are you as ashamed of yourself as I am of you for making sure to lightly oil your skin to a dull manly sheen, to apply the most delicious lip balm just in case you kiss for hours and hours and for making sure you had a champagne bucket right beside the bed and the sofa with a backup of two bottles just in case you decide to get a little buzzed and peel him out of that silk robe you got him with your lips and teeth? 



Well since we’ve got beyond all that I guess I can go ahead and tell you that it is really about how you carve out the role of Valentine that ultimately makes the difference between a mundane experience and one that you can’t even talk about with your boys… Just remember that when you’re eating the Godiva dark chocolate almond clusters from his belly button… after spilling some Godiva dark and white chocolate liquor over his chest!  And don’t even try to clean up the mess with a mouth full of well chilled extra brut champagne because none of this was even supposed to happen…  Correction! None of this is ever going to happen because you did not have time to flirt with, to meet and greet, to get to know and cultivate a friendship with that handsome, witty, cavalier, muscle-mountain of a man who, whether he is you or some other eligible bachelor or even your husband or boyfriend is the very personification of that lusty dream of a Valentine’s Day Prince…



Chances are you already know who this dashing man is, you’ve seen him a thousand times or would have if you had only been looking and serious… Well… maybe not… Maybe that erotic Valentine’s Day card you got him, the one with the key to your house and your un-lockable jock strap in it, the one you put in the black and brown gift bag with the sex dice, the edible handcuffs, the edible cock ring, the edible neck collar and the glow in the dark heat up and cool off lube was all for naught!  Maybe you’re not ready to surprise him by serving him Valentine ’s Day dessert in the buff.  Who am I to judge you?  I hardly even know you.  I don’t think you’re up to the task of recording every minute of hot lovemaking to watch between sessions anyway… it’s beneath you.  You're going to hand him a generic Valentine’s Day card you got from the drug store, appall him with a flavorless Valentines fruit torte you got from the grocery store and then put him to sleep with a series of predictable and I daresay lamentable antics from some dry sitcom or soap opera you’ve seen on cable…



My final advice to you, if you are going to take the path of least resistance is to simply do nothing!  The cleaners won’t have to glare at you strangely when you don’t bring the silk sheets to them stained in chocolate and mango and coconut.  The cleaning lady will not cock her eye at you curiously when she finds pieces of edible underwear and sex toys all over the house.  The neighbors can forget having to call 911 when their 12 year old daughter sees you licking the chocolate mousse off your boyfriend’s nude body on the dining room table after you left the curtains wide open…  Since you’re traveling light you’ll not have to manage any of the wild Valentine’s Day aftershock.  Hell, you might even make it into the office an hour early the next morning. 



But whatever you do, even if it requires no work, no plans… please have the very sexiest Valentine’s Day you possibly can…



Ciao!

Written by David Vollin