douglas Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Above the Grocer’s Store you used to make me run downstairs to the grocer's store below your apartment - after we'd made love - to buy you cigarettes and chocolate and i remember how beautifully ugly the autumnal streets of London used to look as i'd rush along the pavements from your front door litter and rusty leaves racing across the grey the brown flat expanse of the park opposite lined in the distance with the skeletal silhouettes of old English oaks and the bleak vapour trails from passing aeroplanes adorning the brittle pale blue sky like the elegant patterns on your pretty Alfred Meakin bone china i'd always enter the store smiling and smelling of sex and Mr. Naidoo would always grin at me knowingly placing the 20 Silk Cut cigarettes and Lindt chocolate on the counter before i'd said a word then on the busy street again the cold air catching in my throat as i'd rush back to you ecstatically bumping into strangers as i dodged through the fruit sellers re-entering the apartment was always my favourite part the perfumed smoke from the incense the heat from the radiators The Cure playing loudly on the cd player and your outstretched tattooed arms welcoming me back into the sultry masculinity of their warm and secure embrace Quote To receive love, you have to give it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmarti1 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Concrete, vivid, and perfectly clear. Leaves nothing to the imagination because it is all SO definite. Great stuff: Meakin, Lindt, Silk Cut, and Cure. I like this method! Just one question. I saw the English "vapour", so did you mean "aeroplanes", or is really "areoplanes"? (line #13) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdelano Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I like the mood and essence created by the actions of the N. We know right away who's in charge, using sex as bribery. I see the wet streets of London and the knowing smile of the vendor, the hurried return, chocolates and cigarettes the offering, the dubious hero bringing home necessities. Love in the afternoon. Makes me wonder how long this habit will last. Deftly done! Thanks, Paco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedalus Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Sex in London is just so-o-o-o much different than sex in California! Or Iowa, or most of the 48. Alaska and Hawaii don't really count: they are weird appendages. Speaking of which, they are nice to have .... Quote Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Much fine detail keenly remembered in a way such as momentous moments are..... "Where were you when......." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 thank you for your interesting and kind comments gentlemen - much appreciated! dcmarti1 thank you for spotting my typo! Quote To receive love, you have to give it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 very good this dougie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedalus Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 I'm glad to see this one come back! Quote Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I, too, appreciate the re-post. Enjoyed the ensuing replies, too. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Thank you eclipse, dedalus and tony Quote To receive love, you have to give it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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