I remember

• I remember the smell of summer air, heavy with the rain, noticed just in time to run for cover. Tennessee thunderstorms made me so high.

• I remember I would run outside without a shirt with my hairless adolescent chest soaking wet and puffed out as lightning and thuder crashed and flashed around me.

• I remember I felt like I was a god.

• I remember the summer storms of lust, lust so strong I would cum if I moved right/wrong.

• I remember doing so, often.

• I remember the sound of hounds barking in the distance, one of my neighbors treeing a racoon.

• I remember catfish from the Cumberland River.

• I remember my Mom saying "you want to eat that fish then skin it yourself."

• I remember how timeless it felt, no thought of any-time but it's own lost "now."

• I remember when I lost that feeling of timelessness, it was when I joined the service.

• I remember that it was after my last plea to be rescued by my parents from basic training.

• I remember I cried for about five minutes and stopped.

• I remember I went in to the PX bought a six pack of beer, drank it, and walked back to the barracks.

• I dont remember crying so freely ever since.

• I remember that I was more than human once, I was young, innocent, and immortal. I go back to that summer place by walking the streets my heart's intense city and when I get there I play for an hour or two.