Something Dirty I Found Once

It's a wonder school buses don't turn me on, since this other thing also was related to school buses. I was waiting for the bus one spring morning and no one was around, but a piece of paper caught my eye — it was dancing around in the breeze near the edge of the garden where my mom's tulips were trying to bloom.

It was a page from a paperback book. Something like page ... well, I don't remember ... but let's just call it page 269.

It wasn't just any page — it was a page from a very graphic porno novel — but hell, this was back in the fairly tame 1970's, so "graphic" meant something else then (it meant not-so-graphic.)

But, yikes, it was a find! Very hot stuff, very few clothes, full of limber limbs, and one of the girls was named Monique. It had words like "members" and "deltas". Good golly. This kind of stuff just didn't float down from heaven and end up at Connecticut bus stops all that often.

So I snatched it and smoothed it out and saved it in my social studies book and hid it in my room that night in a poetry book.

And read it and read it and read it and read it.