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Fifty Things That Please Me

This was a hard assignement! I really struggled!

1. Imagining the lives of my ancestors.

2. Going back to texts that have always been important for me, registering  the endless power of certain words to contribute to my life.

3. Sitting quietly at my desk surrounded by reference works, preparing a text of my own, or a class.

4. Returning to certain galleries in certain museums.

5. Films by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Kar Wai Wong, the Boulting Brothers or Eric Rohmer. 

6. Listening to Classical music, especially opera, chamber and solo piano.

7. Seeing a really great play. Especially at the Comédie Française.

8. Sitting under the living room windows in a winter morning, the sun streaming in,  reading and smoking my pipe.

9. Cruising for hot, unknown boys.

10. Taking off their clothes and, seeing what they look like naked for the first time, getting that lovely burning-choaking sensation from throat to solar plexus.

11. Getting a sensational, smashing, stupendous blow job.

12. Writing a clear, short, pointed poem.

13.  Cooking a meal slowly, without anybody's "help", calmly drinking a bottle of wine as I proceed.

14. Smoking a pipe or a cigar whilst sitting alone in a room in absolute silence.

15. Drinking a steaming-hot glass of tea in a cold day.

16. Looking over old photographs of people I love.

17. Looking at objects that belonged to people I have loved.

18. Remembering things from my childhood, especially if they involved my mom.

19. Dressing up to the nines and going off to luncheon with LeBF.

20. Sitting next to LeBF whilst he plays the piano.

21. Sitting under the living room windows in a winter morning, the sun streaming in, making out with LeBF.

22. Seeing LeBF off his clothes, or giving him a bath, and getting that lovely burning-choaking sensation from throat to solar plexus.

23. Tying up LeBF and feeding him

 breakfast in bed.

24. Walking in a forest.

25. Petting and riding a horse or donkey.

26. Fencing and swimming.

27. Playing backgammon or tarot [the card game.]

28. When France is first or best at anything. [A common, natural occurrence.]

29. When England is seen as a has-been fraud. [i.e.: Truth revealed.]

30. That France's infant mortality rates, among the lowest in the world, are half those the US. [What an overrated bunch of rednecks.]

31. That France and Argentina are great in football, while England and the US are nothing.

32. That Canadians are so different from Americans.

33. Anything Japanese.

34. The indestructible courage and greatness of the Russian people.

35. The indestructible witness and endurance of Orthodoxy.

36. The subtle patience and understanding of people who love truly.

37. My lover's smell.

38. His hair.

39. The colour of his nipples.

40. That God made trees and put the nicest in the places where I've lived.

41. Gardenias such as there were in my grandmother's house.

42. Saint-Nectaire cheese, from the Auvergne region of FRANCE.

43. White apples from Montbéliard, in the Franche-Comté.

44. That I am a gay man.

45. That Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States.

46. That Dumbya Bush and Dick Chaney might be indicted for war crimes.

47. That my adored baby thinks of me all the time.

48. That I can't ever forget my adored baby.

49. That Socrates was an Athenian in the Age of Alcibiades.

50. That Plato was his disciple.



Why do I get the sensation that I've said all this three-thousand times before? Am I becoming an ancient bromide?