She floats like a swan
Grace on the water
Lips like Sugar
Lips like Sugar
Excerpt from Lips Like Sugar, Echo and the Bunnymen.
I stared at the lyrics she posted in the private message. I felt like I had seen a ghost. Who was this young woman?
The song was one I jokingly said I would be amazed if she had ever heard of. Seconds later she was singing the lyrics and typing them out to me. It was released in 1987. She wasn't even born then!
While 80s music was very popular at the time, it hasn't exactly made a comeback since. Austin Powers even made the joke that the 70s and 80s had "A Flock of Seagulls and not much else." How on earth has this vixen Sonya heard of my favorite song from the time?
I have been listening to the song a lot lately. It has moved up to first on my iHeart Radio playlist. I even got busted with the old singing at the top of my lungs at an intersection scenario while listening to it the other night.
Are the lyrics reminding me of someone? An elusive beauty leading me on but not quite letting me get close enough to touch? Hmm. Is a rocket scientist needed to spell this out?
On the topic of scientists...
I have already told her my real name. Why did I also have to tell her I once practiced medicine and failed? She probably thinks I am the biggest pile of bs lies to ever gaze at her body and fall in love.
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I practiced medicine and failed. It isn't a lie. It also was the other major factor in why my wife and I broke up. I quit medicine, got real fat, and became depressed. Not exactly someone you want around.
I'm less fat now, less depressed, and couldn't remove a boil from someone's ass if I had to. But I'm better. My wife is unlikely to take me back, but I'll try. If it doesn't work out. I'll still be OK.
Before you go that route, I didn't kill anyone or get my license revoked. I never even had a malpractice suit brought against me.
I just couldn't take the emotional stress. I thought I was tough enough. I wasn't. Anyone thinking of going into medicine needs to consider that. It is one thing to see an old person die. Can you watch a child die? Can you watch someone die looking at you with terror in their eyes and you know you have no way to help them? Doctors can. I couldn't. I kept thinking I would get used to it. I didn't.
Doctors do those kinds of things all of the time. The next time you see one, quit bitching about their bill and give them a hug. I guarantee they have had at least a few sleepless nights suffering nightmares even Stephen King would have trouble with.
I'm a wuss. I couldn't cut the mustard. If you read Sonya's profile, it says she likes to dominate "sissy boys". That's me! Dominate away.
Her profile also mentions things like "CEI." Of course I asked. I imagine my face was beet red when she answered. "Um, pass," was all I could say.
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I'm still living in the group setting. She knows it and admitted the other night that she still likes to tease and see if I get so excited that I risk getting caught anyway.
"Come on, you evil Vixen! Oh that looks good. Oh that looks really good. Oh shit here we go again."
I have to laugh at the thought that she could put Viagra completely out of business.
In 1987 when "Lips Like Sugar" blasted the airwaves, I was 28 years old and we were about to have our first child. My wife had unscrupulously seduced this handsome stud known as myself and bam, another night at the local bar leaves the women wondering if there would be anyone left for them.
Translate that last sentence to mean that I had met a wonderful woman and was lucky to have her. I did have my days as a looker, but not the entourage to go with it. The greatest compliment someone ever gave me was that she thought I looked like Robert Redford.
She was quite drunk.
1987 was also my junior year in Pre Med. I was working like a dog at the local grocery store and was putting myself through school. When I got accepted to medical school, I thought nothing could happen to ever ruin the utopian life I was about to have.
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"This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife!"
Excerpt from Once in a Lifetime, The Talking Heads.
David Byrne's words explain my feelings exactly. Here I am in 2021 and a beautiful webcam model seems to be my soulmate. Of course she can anticipate certain needs and desires. Webcam models do it all the time and Sonya is the best of the best.
But pluck Echo and the Bunnymen out of my mind?
I asked her about it and she joked, "Maybe I'm a witch and I have you under my spell". I laughed.
Then I got a shiver. Was she really kidding?
Witches always seemed to me the least scary of Halloween monsters. Gimme a vampire anyday. I even come from Boulder, CO, where the Wicca community has had a large presence for decades. I remember joking as we grew up in school. "They have naked orgies." Every boy wanted to be abducted and sacrificed in one of these orgies. Every mother feared they might.
The reality is that Wicca is a respected religion and is now recognized throughout the United States.
But what if other witch cults were having orgies and trying to get the local community to believe Wicca was doing it?
I sense a fantasy coming on...
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Stu Redding took one last drink of his Coke and tossed it in the trash. He had to get back to his cashier line at the large grocery store across the street, or he was going to be late. That didn't stop him from peeking through the blinds at the next door shop, "Deja Vu". He had no idea what the shop was about. A travel agency or something. He just knew they had a new employee and she was captivating.
Her desk was empty, unfortunately. That disappointed him. She had been in the store a couple of times, but always went through Rod's line, the local hunk. Rod was 6' 2" tall, rippling with muscles and looked like the spitting image of Christopher Reeve. Every woman wanted to go through his line. The new young lady could not be blamed. If only they all knew he had the IQ of a grapefruit. Then again, maybe they did and didn't care.
He looked down at his own biceps. Pathetic. His last girlfriend had said he was "wiry". He was pretty sure that was a nice term for "stick boy". His one claim to fame was that during the cross town rival football game he had laid out the big fullback star playing for Fairview. He played for Boulder High, however. That kind of fame lasted a week there, at most. Boulder High had the brains. Fairview had the jocks.
He rushed back in the store, signed in and turned on the light for his register. She was already there waiting for him.
For lack of a better name at this time, let us call her Deja Vu. She had long straight blond hair that actually went to well below her waist. Her eyes were the lightest blue and her smile a set of the most perfect teeth you could ask for. Her nose was just slightly pointed. Not really an imperfection, just making her capable of giving a wicked grin if desired.
He was staring at her chest. He was always staring at women's chests! Why, oh why couldn't he start above their neck? He had been busted so many times he was sure a special place in Hell had been reserved for him with nothing but mannequin chests lying around as far as the eye could see.
She did have an interesting necklace. It was like a dreamcatcher, but much smaller.
Prying his eyes upward, he smiled and said, "Hello". She nodded and looked down, acting eager to get moving on. He looked down and realized why. The first of her three items was KY Jelly. He quickly rang it up and got it in the bag. She seemed to appreciate his awareness.
Her other two items were a can of cat food and a spatula. Sometimes when he was bored he would play a game, putting the items of a small order together to make a story. This one was not one to be missed. "Poor cat," he chuckled internally.
When the total came up, she seemed to get nervous again. "I'm sorry, I seem to be short by a few dollars." She looked like she might leave.
Realizing she did not want him to pull the KY out of the bag, he reached down to his wallet and pulled out enough to cover it. "It's not a problem, Miss, I have it covered."
She looked extremely relieved. "Thank you!" she said, "I owe you".
He decided it was the perfect time to ask her out. He opened his mouth, but it said, "More sexual favors than you can possibly imagine."
Her mouth popped open. His heart completely stopped.
She reached into her wallet, pulled out a blue ballpoint pen, and grabbed his hand to write something on it. He looked at it as she strode away as fast as possible.