by the blue-tarred walls near the market stalls

back to the porn.

"you've got me. captain desperation steering my ship toward lonely ports of call."

what the hell did i just say? oh god, this was not the time for the tequila to start whirring the the wheels of fancy in my brain, making cogent conversation impossible. this happens all the time. my imagination fills with the rocket fuel the agave nectar yields and rages towards the heavens of my mind. i make connections between unconnected outposts of my mind; disparite colonies of passing thoughts and stray musings suddenly link, and single thoughts clump together to form masses of clutter that my tidy head must expel through my untidy mouth. and yes, most of the time i sound like a discarded cyborg experiment.

"aye, aye, cap'n. rough seas are they?"

and this was also not the time or state for me to be in to be constantly fending off her egresses past my defenses. clearly she wasn't clouded by the zinfindel and her wit was biting through my clothes and starting to draw blood.

"maybe for your average sea dog, but this old mariner's got a few tricks up his sleeve to help navigate these choppy waters."

jesus. i'm left myself open for more attacks. well, not attacks so much as feints. jabs. a fully mounted assult at that point would have been pointless because she could probably see i was easy prey anyway. better she should bat me around for a while before delivering the killing blow. where's the sport otherwise??

"what sort of tricks, old man of the sea?"

ok...not what i was expecting there. i thought she would bite on the old, but not the way she did. this was the first time she got, dare i say it, flirtatious with me. this was shifting from being a contest to repartee. how the hell did that happen? i'm not complaining, but now, i started to feel like she was always going to be in control. she was the initiative for everything so far. and while she'd been agitating everything in a good direction for me, i was still put off by how little i was involved in the action aside from just being along for her ride. and why was she even pulling me along. brain. overactive. must. slow. down. go. with. flirting. stop. resisting.