Notes to Strangers

Cool people

You are cool ok?

LOL? DIAF!

Why do you end each line you type with ‘lol’? When someone finally does invent that machine that pokes people in the eye over the internet, I’m going to buy five. Please, stop ‘lol’ing at me. I know you’re not that clever to start with but you do not have to advertise it every time you hit the enter key.

You

You are Tab Benoit in lazy blue notes from the speakers. You are warm nights and a campfire. You are Aussies in the sun and the surf. You are images in gelatin and digital. You are the Lion King and Pretty Woman especially on Valentines Day. You are Blackwatch and and a New Song. You are mountaintops and covered bridges. You are Silly Wizard and Frappucino. You are Sprite but you became Coke. You are silly and funny and sexy and smart. You are all I care to remember and everything I can never forget. I miss you more than you could ever know and I can’t believe this is happening to me. I miss your love and your smile and most of all, I miss my friend.

I’m sorry

I just want to have sex with you because you’re never had sex before. I want to be able to “teach” you about sex. Maybe do some kinky stuff that you’d think was normal.

I’m an asshole, but I’m an asshole who’d make your first time one you wouldn’t forget

Misleading

My motivations are not enitrely what I’ve led you to believe. I’m not just a slut, and although it is part of it, if that was all of it, I could find what I needed in my office building. I can handle it, carefully and responsibly, for sure, but I expect it to hurt. I’d rather feel the pain than nothing at all.
I hope it’s not a deal breaker.

Misleading

My motivations are not enitrely what I’ve led you to believe. I’m not just a slut, and although it is part of it, if that was all of it, I could find what I needed in my office building. I can handle it, carefully and responsibly, for sure, but I expect it to hurt. I’d rather feel the pain than nothing at all.
I hope it’s not a deal breaker.

Sorry…

I think I gave you herpes.

Black Folks

I am a white man. I just want to say to anyone of color reading this that you are all my brothers and sisters, and I don’t see your color. I see your humanity. I love you all as I love all people.

Please do not look at me as if I were your enemy. Please don’t think the worst of me when I’m not my best. Be my brother or sister, as I would be yours.

I truly miss not having to see people for their color, but it’s forced upon me now, at a time which I’d simply prefer to forget it exists as a difference. I have to walk so carefully around people of color, they get so hurt and offended if I say or do something without a second thought. Before I entered the world of adulthood, I never had to do this, I never cared or even noticed. But now I have to, for fear of my job, and even maybe my life.

This is not how it should be. We had to apologize to you, now you have to forgive us, and once you do, we can forget the whole thing together. There are some on both sides that cling to the past, so let us, the enlightened, leave them behind.

I’m just sad and tired of being forced to be someone I am not, because of something so outmoded and irrelevant as racism.

Questions

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions.

I love my boyfriend, but…

He masturbates to granny porn.