As the poet said, "Two roads diverged in a woods, and I took the one least-traveled by and that has made all the difference."
That road, a well-paved Federal highway outside Glenwood Springs, quickly became a Colorado State highway, then more of a Pitkin County road, rutted and pot-holed. That turned to well-packed gravel. Then to two ruts going off into the near-distance. Finally it morphed into a walking path, then a deer trail, finally a rabbit run, after which it ran up a tree and disappeared into a knothole.
"Two roads diverged in a woods, and I took the one least-traveled," and now where the Hell was I?
Apparently, I was right beside a little old, disused cemetery, ringed with a rusty old pipe fencing. There were about six old, weed-encrusted headstones and one lonely, tiny mausoleum. The names on the stones said 'Helbore'. The little mausoleum, though, just bore the name of 'Jenny'.
It was sunset and it was clear I wasn't going to get out of where I was until morning. I had about half-an-hour before full sunset, on what was to be a moonless night, and thus blacker than the inside of cow's stomach at midnight.
So—at age 30, here in 1992—my 'campsite' was a silnylon tarp over the triked maxi-scooter, then extended back and pegged down to a grass surface. I was snugged right up against the little tomb, my head almost touching, with a ground-cloth under me, and a can of vaguely-warm beans, crackers plus water for my dinner, drawn from my emergency supplies. Tying and staking everything down took a few minutes and by the last of the evening light, I was in my sleeping bag and settled in for the night.
It was too dark even to think about the composition of my next nightly pun. In the fading light, supplemented by flashlight, I re-read my ex-fiancee's last letter one more time.
Shaking my head at how I managed to 'dodge-a-bullet' by getting away from this enraged, inconsistent, entitled, cheating blonde airhead, I re-read:
"To my creep, pervert, sex-obsessed ex-boyfriend, who should be castrated for his own good. The engagement and marriage plans are OFF.
You didn't do what I told you to do. I was gonna wear the pants in this marriage, that's what I decided, just the way I told you to behave, when you gave me your ring. I'm keeping the ring.
You don't own me. I'm not your slave. I can go out and have sex with whomever I want, whenever I want. After all, I learned in my Women's Study classes, it's my body—my choice—and I can decide to use my body anyway I please.
You just have to pay for my vacations, my dating, my other men and always be there when I get back, chaste and waiting.
The courses I took on Woman's Studies at college taught me that monogamy is a relatively modern concept. It became clear that I needed to 'find myself' and get re-connected with my Inner Sexual Female Goddess.
I learned that a woman's body is designed to please several men, not just one. No one man can totally satisfy me, now that I know I'm truly liberated from obsolete conventional social mores.
So, OK, I had my 'fling.' If you don't like the way I am, you can just fuck off.
After all, this 'fling' was just once, to get it out of my system. It was just recreational sex. Come on, a little fuck with another half-dozen black guys over a couple weeks vacation that you paid for is no big thing.
But you didn't wait for me to come back. You weren't chaste, the way I demanded you to be. You dated another woman while I was gone to the Islands.
You weren't true to me. You betrayed me.
Now I've got to punish you.
The best thing is that I don't have to listen to any more of your stupid, dumb puns, jokes and limericks any more.
So I'm getting rid of you before we get married. You're a sick, perverted sex fiend. All you want to do is fuck and have sex, twice a week at least. You're pathetic. My grandmother and mother warned me about men like you.
My former boyfriend was so much more moral, so upstanding. He didn't want to do sex morning and evening, especially since he had that really good-looking hunk of a close friend to spend time with, not bothering me for any dirty, nasty stuff, until the two of them suddenly left.
That meant I had to make-do with you.
Except for my 'fling,' sex outside a committed relationship isn't right. It says so in the Bible, and in social hygiene films.
I don't talk about sex. I don't think about it. I don't miss it.
Remember, sex is only for married people, for diamond-ring owners, for nice girls. Sex takes place behind closed doors, with the lights out, bed-clothes on and then only for 3 minutes.
Sex isn't fun. Sex isn't casual. Sex is a deadly serious, disgusting, dirty, humiliating, sticky-gooey, slimy, degrading business. Sex is nasty. Sex is what women have to endure. Sex is shameful.
I have to save my sexing because pleasure from sex is a commodity that can be provided or withheld, bought or sold, even in marriage. That means there's only just so much of it, so I've got to be frugal with it.
Sex has VALUE = MONEY = WEALTH and I've got to save every little bit of it. Now that you're gone, I can tell you that I'll give up the least amount of sex I can, while getting the most money and valuable stuff I can from my Island men.
Now that I'm free of you and your pervert's fantasies, I can tell you the truth. Liking sex is what you fake until the ink is dry on the marriage license. Just lie there. Don't move around. Don't use your fingernails or moan or anything; that's slutty.
That's what Mom, Grand-mom and the profs at school taught me. I am not a slut. Being a slut is not frugal.
I'll never let a man make me into a slut, so I'm getting out. I get to keep the ring and all the gifts you gave me, plus the car and the apartment, all paid up for the year. I have some new guys that I met in the Islands and each one is bigger, better, longer and stronger than you and they only want sex when I say, which will be once a month, if that.
Goodbye, mofo!"
Shaking my head at the lengths a screwed-up, entitled woman would go through to justify, rationalize and excuse a bad-judgement, emotionally-impulsive decision, I relaxed, looking up at the star-filled sky, through the edge of my emergency tarp.
I was in luck, as the weather forecast said no rain.
Yeah, sure. The flash of lightning and clap of thunder woke me from a dreamless sleep, along with the pattering of raindrops on the silnylon fabric over me. Sighing, I burrowed back into the bag and fell back asleep again, hoping for no wind.
It was an odd dream. Very vivid, in full color and sound. I was me (warts and all) but naked, lying on a bed of soft, sun-warmed moss. No tent & no bike. There were trees around, but in the near distance, a wall of mist enclosed the trees. I could hear a little wind in their leaves, above, but where I was, the air was still. I was sun-warmed, although there was no sun overhead, just glowing mist.
I also sported a huge, rock-solid, throbbing erection.
Just beside my head was the little mausoleum, but this time, the little door on the front was open, revealing a small bronze container sitting inside.
On the top of the little white limestone coffer was a girl.
She was sitting there, one leg under the other in a sort-of leg-swinging half-lotus, the other leg idly swinging. One tanned leg swinging, spread wide. Leather slippers on her feet. No tan lines on her hips or belly.
I noticed that there were no tan lines because all she had on were thin doeskin fringed leggings, attached to a thin leather belt around her waist at the outside. She had a simple loin-cloth arranged up-and-around-and-through the belt, but it was pulled aside, exposing her bare shaven-smooth pussy. Above the belt, she was a bare-midriff little hoyden. Delightful nut-brown bare waist.
She had a sort-of soft, fringed, thin leather vest that kind-of enclosed her small but prominent boobs. The vest was held together by a simple loop tie, in a slip-knot, with a small leather toggle. The leather was thin enough that I could clearly see the twin thrusts of her erected nipples through the material. I guessed that one tug on the toggle and the vest would come apart, baring all of her to my gaze.
Tanned shoulders, face and neck. Long brown hair, ironed smooth in a late 60's hippie style, down to her shoulders, held back with a simple leather band. No jewelry. No rings. No make-up that I could see. No lipstick.
A silly grin on her face, bright black eyes looking right at me. At my felt-like-iron-rod cock.
"Hi, I'm Jenny," she said, adding, "I'm kinda dead. I hope you don't mind. You're cute."
What do you say to a pretty girl in a vivid dream, who appears hot, dresses like a slutty hippie but says she's dead? I noted that, although her tongue, lips and mouth appeared to move, what I heard echoed inside my own head, like my own voice.