Hummm...Getting to know me. Just like the song. Well, I guess you say I'm an alright kind of guy. I don't go out of my way to hurt anyone. I don't try to offend or intentionally wound anyone. I go by the old saying,"live and let live." I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Personal Rights all inclusive. So what makes me different for we are all unique in our own way...Right? Well. Let me think about that for a minute.....and here's what I think..............................
Having all the advantages of a white boy over 21 and relatively capable, I have pretty much breezed through life or at least until recently. I've pretty much did what I wanted to do. I slept with who I wanted and alot I didn't...Oh the power of alcohol...They do look better the more you drink. I've partied with the best. Got fucked up with the brightest. Got laid by the finest. (And yes, some not so fine). But all in all, I've pretty much did it my way. Oh no...another song. Well. let it suffice to say I've had a pretty good run at life. I've lived thru Elvis Presley...the break up of the Doobie Brothers....Disco (Wow...What an era).....the Vietnam conflict (they keep saying it wasn't a war ...don't believe em) ...Watergate....the Regan years....the discovery of The Virus HIV aka the gay cancer........Gaslines.....leisure suits......(see disco)..........long hair....coffed hair....short hair....now no hair.....bell bottom jeans....dingo boots.........chinos...........silk shirts.......muskoil............lots of jewery...no jewery...now one or two good pieces........The BeeGees...(and I love me some BeeGees)......poor Andy's demise.......the end of privacy........its the information age now............Drag shows....God ya gotta love em....Cruise bars....sissy bars....manly man bars.....Dynasty (didn't ya love Alexis & the original Stephen)......The days of Line Dancing....(they're back they say)........oh and so so much more..........................................
Having experienced first hand all these things and so much more one would wonder just what effect it had on a country boy like me. I am from the country in case I didn't mention that little tidbit. Born and bred in a small town with both grandparents having farms and land and cattle and oh all that good stuff. Well, I have walked thru life with my eyes wide open and somewhat fascinated by it all. Everything in its own right has a fascination for me. I am a man of my age having experience first hand all but one thing. Not that I didn't try... Military service. I did try to join the Navy when I was seventeen but thank God they wouldn't have me. I registered with the draft board the same year Vietnam ended...Lucky I was I suspect.
I was a late bloomer. And bloom I did. It only took twenty-five years to grow up. In someways, I'm still in Never-neverland. The Peter Pan syndrome I think its called. I don't want to grow up or get old but guess what....I ammmmmmmmmm. Anyway, I still look pretty good for my old age....of course it's not the years, right? Its the mileage..............
I've met and known some pretty interesting people over the years. I still see one person I went to high school with from time to time. He's gone back to crack and doesn't socialize anymore again...but he's still around after thirty years. I don't dare go back home and see the others I went to school with....I've seen a few and oh my God....they looked so old and they have grand kids. I still think of myself as a grandkid....not having em. But all in all, the two people who stand out the most are of course David, my lost lover of last year and my ex of eleven years who's still around helping me out... Jerry. Ya gotta love Jerry. If you knew him, I mean. I've never met anyone as generous and thoughtful as Jerry. He still loves me. How I don't know. Even after all the years we've been just friends. He still loves the ex ball and chain. He was so jealous of David though....but now I realize he was actually jealous of any two people who love one another like David and I did.... I miss David alot. These days I cry alot....makes me feel like a girl sometimes. Another song comes to mind. "I am woman..." Helen Reddy.....you said it best........"...watch me grow. I still have a long long way to go..." and go I will...........until later
Having all the advantages of a white boy over 21 and relatively capable, I have pretty much breezed through life or at least until recently. I've pretty much did what I wanted to do. I slept with who I wanted and alot I didn't...Oh the power of alcohol...They do look better the more you drink. I've partied with the best. Got fucked up with the brightest. Got laid by the finest. (And yes, some not so fine). But all in all, I've pretty much did it my way. Oh no...another song. Well. let it suffice to say I've had a pretty good run at life. I've lived thru Elvis Presley...the break up of the Doobie Brothers....Disco (Wow...What an era).....the Vietnam conflict (they keep saying it wasn't a war ...don't believe em) ...Watergate....the Regan years....the discovery of The Virus HIV aka the gay cancer........Gaslines.....leisure suits......(see disco)..........long hair....coffed hair....short hair....now no hair.....bell bottom jeans....dingo boots.........chinos...........silk shirts.......muskoil............lots of jewery...no jewery...now one or two good pieces........The BeeGees...(and I love me some BeeGees)......poor Andy's demise.......the end of privacy........its the information age now............Drag shows....God ya gotta love em....Cruise bars....sissy bars....manly man bars.....Dynasty (didn't ya love Alexis & the original Stephen)......The days of Line Dancing....(they're back they say)........oh and so so much more..........................................
Having experienced first hand all these things and so much more one would wonder just what effect it had on a country boy like me. I am from the country in case I didn't mention that little tidbit. Born and bred in a small town with both grandparents having farms and land and cattle and oh all that good stuff. Well, I have walked thru life with my eyes wide open and somewhat fascinated by it all. Everything in its own right has a fascination for me. I am a man of my age having experience first hand all but one thing. Not that I didn't try... Military service. I did try to join the Navy when I was seventeen but thank God they wouldn't have me. I registered with the draft board the same year Vietnam ended...Lucky I was I suspect.
I was a late bloomer. And bloom I did. It only took twenty-five years to grow up. In someways, I'm still in Never-neverland. The Peter Pan syndrome I think its called. I don't want to grow up or get old but guess what....I ammmmmmmmmm. Anyway, I still look pretty good for my old age....of course it's not the years, right? Its the mileage..............
I've met and known some pretty interesting people over the years. I still see one person I went to high school with from time to time. He's gone back to crack and doesn't socialize anymore again...but he's still around after thirty years. I don't dare go back home and see the others I went to school with....I've seen a few and oh my God....they looked so old and they have grand kids. I still think of myself as a grandkid....not having em. But all in all, the two people who stand out the most are of course David, my lost lover of last year and my ex of eleven years who's still around helping me out... Jerry. Ya gotta love Jerry. If you knew him, I mean. I've never met anyone as generous and thoughtful as Jerry. He still loves me. How I don't know. Even after all the years we've been just friends. He still loves the ex ball and chain. He was so jealous of David though....but now I realize he was actually jealous of any two people who love one another like David and I did.... I miss David alot. These days I cry alot....makes me feel like a girl sometimes. Another song comes to mind. "I am woman..." Helen Reddy.....you said it best........"...watch me grow. I still have a long long way to go..." and go I will...........until later
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