WARM PUDDLES OF LOVE

Here are the results of the request competition, in reverse order. In third place with 0 votes is how I got the postman to deliver biscuits to me for free. In second place, also with no votes, but chronologically more advanced is my plan for gun control and prime-time death, as told to TV's Michael Moore, or one of his minions. And the winner is, with 1 vote, my relationship history (sans "the one about the person who YOU consider to be responsible for your current mental condition" ...is it really that obvious? If so, why don't you read between the lines and tell me yourself). There'll be no jokes so I can plausibly deny at a later stage that I was joking. There'll be nothing but honesty, so you will think I am telling nothing but lies. There sure as fuck won't be the whole truth as that would be. [sentence ends].

My first love (not my First Love) was contaminated with recurring dreams of Nazis swarming down hills to surround my home. They were the Luftwaffe, but instead of flying in planes they just stuck their arms out to the side and made engine noises. The sheer terror of the dream woke me up every night as the building was surrounded. Who knows what could have happened if I had managed to sleep through it, who knows what terror was yet to come, who knows where I might have ended up, both in the dream and in reality. The love ended at the moment she said that she didn't want to go out with me. It was fun while it lasted, but it was never really anything more than a youthful infatuation with someone who deigned to talk to me.

Next up came too many years of unhealthy, unrequited love. Somewhat luckily my mind was on other things so I wasn't able to fully plumb the depths of pathos, but a few unmentionable anecdotes spring to my mind and bring a mix of wry smiling and horror at how low I nearly sunk. Much to my delight, this turned to sheer delight when, briefly, too briefly, it mutated into requited love. Ahh sweet happiness. It was. Wow. So nice, so good, so descriptive. Too many happy stories, too many things I could tell you. The zenith was her smiling at me that day; I hate to resort to the world of cleesh, but it IS etched on my brain. Her face at that exact moment is a photograph owned only by me; despite being taken with my eyes, I am placed, faceless, in the photo, if only to remind me that I really was there. There is no evidence of anything. It ended.

Rebound love is in many ways like rebound sex, except decorum dictates that it takes place much further along in time. I even noticed myself thinking "I don't like her as much as [...]". Sounds horrible, huh? Yeah well, I reserved the right at birth to be a cunt when necessary; I got the midwife to sign the affidavit on my behalf, and if it really means that much, I'll have to dig it out for you. This, like all previous to it, became a friendship, I hope. This, like all previous to it, ended.

A couple of dalliances with pain followed. Minor attempts at love were quickly shot down when lied to, crushed, torn apart, generally treated like shit. Whether I am making them out to be less than they were by limiting them to these three sentences is a call for you to make. Insert your own venomous adjectives.

Which, sadly, brings us to the present day, and perhaps the safest is no comment. I don't think it's right to discuss my opinions on others behind their back, or even in their face, but with others. I may be selling a somewhat more pathetic image than reality, but then again, I may be doing the reverse (Reality than image: pathetic. More, somewhat, a selling. Be; may I?) So yes, too much has gone unsaid. I don't think you are really getting any insight into me, other than the me that I am pretending to be today. You asked, and you received. *turns on latent macho fear* ... But sex is an entirely different story altogether...*turns it off*