Murdoch said:
Welsh on an acid trip; how ironic!
Drugs?
Perhaps that's what it was after all.
Back in the bar, did someone slip a drug in my drink? That spinter in my ass, could it have been the injection of some hallucinagen?
Many times since those fateful days I have recollected the fragments of my memories. Slowly, over the years I have pieced the memories together. They form not a clear picture but a collage of sensations and memores.
Falling, I remember the falling, my balls suddenly shrinking to the size of an acorn with the expectation of a hard landing. (As if my penis, the faithful friend was screaming Danger danger danger!) In that moment of sheer panic, my lungs exhausted from screaming across the City of San Francisco and it's Bay, I knew I was lost, as if cast out and damned.
When I hit, I had a vague impression of falling not into a warm pool of welcoming water, but the cold sting of reality stinging my youthful naivete with harshness of our gendered world.
I landed in a stinging splash.
By body exhausted from all the fear and screaming, I might have drowned had I not been fished out of the pool like some stunned fish. Then I was sinking, down, my mouth open still screaming, water filling my lungs.
But they dragged me out.
They had their own purposes.
I know not who pulled me from the waters. They brought me to a lounge chair. I was dimly aware as they tied down my legs and feet with satin scarves. The water had soaked off the slime and ooze that had covered me since the gay bar. But now my naked wet body chilled in the cold Sausalito air.
They were all about me. They were everywhere
Women.
Women of all shapes and sizes.
Beautiful women too, so beautiful perhaps I might have been blinded but for my daze.
(Schwing! went my faithful friend, more conscious than my mind)
There were red heads and brunnetes, movie stars and models, blacks, asians, latinas, even a sexy midget. They were young and old, they were gorgeous and ugly. Some were delicate and some were rough. Some were beautiful, others were butch. Some belonged on the cover of a magazine, others belonged behind the bars of a Harley.
(Yum yum, said the faithful friend, looks like a banquet tonight!)
And they stood next to each other, and slowly I noticed things.
How they touched each other.
How they held hands.
How their hands grazed over each other's bodies, so delicate and tender.
(Happy Happy Happy Happy said the faithful friend)
I saw them kiss, their mouths touching, opening.
(LESBIANS!!!! COOL!!!! said the faithful friend).
Their bodies so close.
What is it about lesbianism that attracts men? Our fascination is simple, it is the word more. More women, more sex, and in the arrogance of the penis thinking that with out dicks we can conquer and fulfill the biological imperative.
A Greek temple, a celebration to Aphrodite!
(the faithful friend joyous, "I'm going to get some!")
An older woman came to me, sat down near me, looked down at my swollen member and smiled in a way that might have been wicked.
"You were the sacrifice?" She asked.
"Yes.." But before I could say more she put a finger to my lips.
"But you like women?" She said.
"Pussy, yes I like." My words coming out like Tarzan learning to speak.
"Perhaps, let's find out." She said. "Begin the test."