Full text of the Complete Volume of Collected Borg Poetry: "Poetry is irrelevant."
As a few of you may know, a troll recently called the pseudo-autobiographical story of my very first interracial encounter:
"Sappy."
He/She/It also informed me that
"I was gay."
Now I have to admit to you that this bothered me. I'd been losing sleep for days over how to present this particular revelation to my husband, since Perry's always considered himself one of the legendary poster boys for straight hetero sex. Even though we made love twice during the time period in which I wanted to tell him about my predicament, I couldn't find the right way to broach such an important subject.
Finally I sketched out my plan for telling Perry about my dilemma. What follows is a fairly accurate description of the results:
First, after stripping down entirely, I hid in the bedroom closet for fifteen minutes counting on my unknowing hubby to come into the bedroom looking for me so that I might burst out of the closet. I figured an in your face confrontation was best. Besides I knew I could get his attention just by making sure that my breasts took the lead in an
in-your-face
attack. After the first fifteen minutes were up, I decided to wait for another fifteen minutes. Three minutes had gone by when I screamed out at the top of my lungs that he'd better come back to the bedroom and see me--right now.
Now Perry is nothing if not headstrong. He didn't budge.
My children came in instead. Naturally they asked me why I was hiding in the closet, and, being the helpful little girl scout she is, my youngest, Trini, opened the door to let me out. So there I stood in the midst of all our hanging shirts, skirts and dresses totally nude. Before my bug-eyed progeny could ask any me more questions, I told them in no uncertain terms that I wanted to see their father, and then they were to work on their homework for at least three and a half hours or until next Tuesday whichever came first.
My little girl quoted me quite succinctly when she said: "Daddy! Mommy's hiding in your closet naked, and she said to tell you that you'd better get your ass in there if you know what's good for you."
So much for romantic trappings wrapped in an element of surprise.
I didn't realize that a man could stare for so long at a naked woman standing in a clothes closet and not say a single word. He tried to keep his face composed to hide any feelings he might have, but I could see deep inside his dark brown eyes that he was laughing at me way, way back inside of his primal, macho psyche.
Grimacing slightly, I started to tell Perry
Nevermind,
but before I could get the word out, he spoke. "Can I ask what this's all about?"
"I'm coming out of the closet."
"I see that. Apparently so did everyone else in the house. It's a good thing that Ben's friend, Trammell, left already." He paused. "Well? Are you going to tell me why you're standing naked in our bedroom closet?"
I took, a deep breath and told him the truth. "A troll told me that my story was 'sappy,'and that I'm actually gay."
He nodded, but I could tell that he just didn't comprehend the gravity of my statement. "A troll. Tell me, Lyss, do you have to spend a lot of time under bridges or anything to talk to these trolls?"
As tears began to form in my eyes, I shook my head and answered. "E-mail."
"I was unaware that trolls had become so technologically advanced."
I stood up straight and dabbed my eyes with the shirt tail of an old blouse I haven't worn for a while to compose myself. "You're making fun of me."
Perry held up his large hand in a peacemaking gesture. "Not at all. I didn't know how much it bothered you to have anybody call one of your stories 'Sappy.' Especially a troll." Of course, I didn't realize that I'd set him up until he nailed me with the obvious retort. "So which sappy story did this troll insult?"
"Stephen Chapter One."
"No kidding, just Chapter One? He didn't even get to the really sappy chapters yet."
"
Stephen
isn't sappy," I blurted out. "And if you had more respect for the dead, you'd know it's a moving, semi-autobiographical..."
"I take it back!" Perry threw up his hands for a moment. "I take it back! I'm sorry I said that about your story." He reached in and took my bare arm gently with one hand. "So, troll confrontations aside, why are you standing naked in the closet?"
"He said 'I was gay,' so I thought I'd come out of the closet for you." I threw my free arm out in a dancer's
sell
gesture. He didn't buy it. Then I flushed. I could feel my face redden, but I couldn't tell whether any of my obvious embarrassment affected him since like most black people, Perry doesn't redden, he just darkens.
Perry made the shape of an
Oh,
with his mouth, and he made his eyes smile once again. "So now that you're gay, are you planning to bring another woman to our bed?"
I shook my head. "No! Not yet, anyway, but I want you to examine me all over to see if you can locate my penis."
Bingo! That got him. I knew it would. He stared at me this time showing genuine confusion in his eyes. "You want me to locate your..."
"...Penis." I finished his sentence. "If I'm gay, and I'm living with you, then I'm sure you'll be able to discover a penis somewhere on me."
"I haven't found one in the eleven plus years we've been together." Perry pointed out. His eyes raced over every inch of my breasts and torso, down my abdomen and up the inside of my pale thighs.
"Ah-hah! But you haven't actually looked for one, have you?" I had him on that one, so he didn't bother to answer me.
Audibly sighing, Perry made a half-hearted circular gesture with his finger and hand. "Turn around." Then he shook his head and grumbled. "I still don't see one."
"Since you don't see any, you'll have to use your fingers." I stated. "I'm coming out of this closet now, so it's up to you to prove or disprove that I'm gay."
"Lyss, tell me again why you believe in trolls?"
"Irrelevant!" I understand the Borg collective now. "We will establish empirical evidence of the presence of a penis," I decreed in all my glorious nakedness. "Or we will die trying."
"Do I get a vote in this?"
"No." I pushed my finger the cotton of his shirt and into the sternum of his chest. "Your mission which you have already chosen to accept is to explore all the outer and inner regions of my body where a rogue penis may be hidden." I noticed that the laughter in Perry's eyes was being replaced by a curious heat which had been ignited in the dark depths of his pupils. "Take off this shirt."
"Yes, ma'am," he responded.
"The verdict is not in on whether or not I'm a ma'am yet," I told him as I continued to unbutton his shirt. "However, let's keep every option open until we're absolutely sure." Meanwhile Perry undid the fastener and zipper of his slacks in record time. Letting his pants fall to the floor, my husband grabbed my shoulder with one hand, the back of my head with his other hand, and then he pulled my face right up against his. He clamped his lips possessively onto mine and forced my mouth open.
"Hey...!"
I had to swallow my own word of protest, when his tongue pushed that single syllable back into my mouth. I abandoned any nominal protest in favor of Perry's explorations. It was obvious that even though I might have hidden a penis deep down in my throat that he was willing to take that chance. Soon Perry's arms swept all the way around me, and, breaking free from that soulful kiss, he lifted me right up off the floor. Gently he laid me down upon our bed, while his hands then became free to explore my exposed flesh.
I was still tugging at his briefs trying to free his midsection. Old habits die hard, I guess. For some reason my mind flashed on a virtual male stripper that Myst had posted on the bulletin boards a few days back, and I remembered how dark his "tan" made him seem, and how hot I became just staring at his flaunting erection hypnotically swinging up and back time and again and again and again. Suddenly I knew that whether I possessed a penis or not, I had to put my hands on my husband's wonderfully large and familiar cock. I literally ripped at the waistband of his briefs.
"Hey, hey! I still need to wear these until we do the laundry."
"I'll buy you more," I said between gritted teeth.