From Hello to Intimacy in 3 Easy Steps

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Some events are just really issue-driven: my current personal pet peeve must be one of them.~0~


Online contacts do not have to be painful {or so I’ve heard}.


Maybe there’s just something to my aura that magnetises the weird, the sexually addicted, the perverse and painful.~1~


I’m in the midst of yet another one of these oddball situations;

in late April, a guy introduced himself to me through a perfectly acceptable venue: an environmental networking site {NOT a dating site!}


He seemed normal enough, although young; and at first sent pretty jpegs like flowers, sky, and so forth. Sweetness-and-light stuff, don’t you know.~2~


But then he zig-zagged and started in  with the sensual stuff- kissy-kissy slideshows!


Then, luckily, a break came-a hiatus while he high-tailed his way from his country of employment, back across the desert and ocean to his country of birth. I thought all was over, as I heard no more..


but no-I thought too soon-.and he returned a few days ago, more ebullient and persevering than ever…~3~


I love you, I love you, he cried, and-when did you last make love dear?


HELLO?~4~


”Isn’t that rather a personal question?” I replied.


Yes, but I need to know you COMPLETELY


and WITHOUT BOUNDARIES


said he..


to which,


I am silent


knowing that discretion sometimes-often- means remaining still;


the rabbit hiding in the tall grass may go unseen by the hawk.
~5~