the reworked of the earth part iii
By the end of the day there was a knock at the door and Alex wasn’t
surprised when Rob was standing there looking jumpy and amazingly hot.
“Whaddid you mean by what you said?”
“I mean I saw you on the net. I saw your—”
Rob put a finger to his lips and pressed inside the apartment, closing the door behind him.
“You can’t say shit like that.”
Alex raised his eyebrow.
“Were you trying to make me feel weird? Or embarrassed?”
“No,” Alex said. “I was trying to tell you I want you.”
2.
When she was a little girl she almost died in a swimming pool, she says, she did and I believe her. She went past the blue into the white into the white beyond the white and saw past angels, churches and jesus, she said she saw into everything and when she returned she burned to let the world know.
“and I’m standing here, teaching these kids who never listen cause this life has to count for something, and there’s more to this than what we see and she busts her ass every day and busts her head all night, the exhausted of the earth, the blessed of the earth, the worked up and worked over of the earth and glory hallelujah, behold, hallelujah, the street preacher screams the kingdom of god is on its way and cannot even see the kingdom of god is here
He put down his beer and wiped his lips, lamented, jesus is coming any day, “look at the way we treat each other,” and the bus driver headed down Western, rolling over broken roads says “things can’t go on like this, kid shot over there, and kid shot there and kid shot there this weekend, he was sixteen he’s just too young.”
“It’s all too young,” we chorus, me included back, and she shakes her head and says, “well the book of revelations says, the book of revelations says, and you know, you know, she says, jesus is coming. The lord’s returning any day.”
I have to say, if he hasn’t come already, we are running out of excuses for that old story, squeezing all our juices into this deadly cup of bullshit. Till the soil of your heart, until you see Him there. become the reworked of the earth, bear the seed of God in you.
3.
The first time Alex and Rob had sex, they were sitting on the couch
and Rob said, “So whaddo you wanna do?” and Alex put his hand on Rob’s thigh,
and that’s why Rob put his hand on Alex’s, and Alex moved closer.
Massage his thigh, massage desire, open up this boy’s shorts, stroke him s through his underwear. Yes, right there!
Do not dare to not moan,
Groan
and lean your lovely head against his shoulder, open your mouth a little.
Rob’s green eyes closed to slits. His mouth reached up for Alex’s the same time
Alex squeezed his dick, and when Rob turns and thrusts his tongue into his lover’s
mouth, the flat of Alex’s hand holds Rob’s balls, hot and hanging.
They are both naked and pulling out the bed, then on the bed, twisting together.
Rob pulled Alex’s face up. It wasn’t just head he wanted.
He wants eyes and arms and lips and tongues and kindness.
He wants to look up at Alex in love and bind his face in love, to kiss him,
press his body up into a man who wasn’t that last bastard, and not the others
so quickly forgotten, who slaked the need.
Fucking together, thrusting together, moving together, loving together,
working the dirt to life again, the reworked of the earth.