“I
don't flirt, Charles”
I
don’t either, in fact I’m against small talk on account of it meanders and
leaves you no further down the road.
You’re
far too important and far too intelligent to engage in trivial social parlances,
especially when we could be discussing the state of this fractured world and
how we can make this a better place for everyone to live and actually prosper.
When
we talk I feel like a revolution is underfoot and in a matter of hours the blood
in the streets will be up to our ankles which is not an altogether bad thing
depending on whose side you are on.
And
you don’t have to worry about me falling for you because even though I fall in
love about every twenty eight days or so, with you I know this is a much more
serious affair and we best take it slowly so we don’t miss a crumb of exquisiteness
as we get to really know one another and hopefully lose our inhibitions and fear
of intimacy along the way.
You
stood there in your summer best in the Philippines heat as I watched as you
undressed my mind with the captivating way you have of always being three steps
ahead of what I may be thinking at any given time.
I
became lost in the simmering exactitude of your piercing eye transfigurations
as you left me wanting more and wishing we could be physically close if only
for a millennium or two.
“I
don't flirt, Charles”
And
all I could think was hallelujah because I decided a long time ago flirting amounts
to zip in this eternal land of careless carnage and pursuits of deplorable
gluttony.
I
want to fall for a real woman who knows exactly what and who they want as
teardrops fall and the miles between us melt away like snow and intolerance.
You
draw me in with every truism you spill like candy from the verity store or
thunder claps from God’s own exalted palms.
And
let’s not mince words because they’re key in our lines of work and let us not change
the flightpath of a long-lived bird because we both know how important a
Phoenix is to regeneration and the rebirth of the human experience.
Charles Cicirella
9/18/16
