31 March, 2006
What a great day! The weather was beautiful, and spent in chores and
hard work, with a couple little exceptions – Clover and I were
chopping wood out near the creek, sweating in the heat, when I spontaneously
pushed him in. He landed flat in the mud, and rose sputtering out
of the freezing cold water with a crazy look on his face. I took off
running. He grabbed a couple of handfuls of mud and took off after
me. The next thing I knew I had mud smeared onto my back and legs,
and we were wrestling right there, as he tried to drag me back into
the river. I’m a little stronger than him, and it wound up being
me who threw him in again, but as I did I slipped, and we both wound
up laughing, wet, and covered in mud. He wasn’t wearing much
to begin with – just a pair of shorts, but it ruined my clothes
completely. We wound up stripping naked right there by the creek and
washing ourselves and our clothes off, before heading back to the
house for a beer. As we were walking back, Clover hopped on my back
and I gave him a piggy back ride back to the house. That boy is too
much.
The rest of the day was just more chores, although once we got our
clothes off we were reluctant to put them back on, and really, there
was no reason to, since the weather is so hot and beautiful. We just
continued working in the nude. But tonight was the real highlight
– amateur WWF wrestling! Its one of my favorite things to do
out here. My friend Love invited me the day I got here – and
it was as hilarious as I remembered. In fact, it turned out to be
more interesting than I could have hoped, and I think I found a cute
wrestler there to model for me.
Clover, unfortunately, didn’t want to go – he stayed home
to work on his poetry. But I met Love in town with a couple of other
friends from The Haven for a terrible dinner at an awful Mexican restaurant
which serves only white people (the food in Tennessee is terrible
just as a general rule – if I want something tasty I have to
cook it myself, or else hint and act famished around Love so that
she will feed me some of her tasty cooking). And then we were off
for wrestling! It had the usual acts – the wrestlers hot girlfriend
helping him to cheat and getting in a fight with Love (all in good
fun, of course), beautiful referees, unbelievably gross men with wild
mullets, snakes, and other irrational favorites. One of the guys wore
these huge puffy pants – it turned out they were stuffed with
popcorn, and during the breaks he would reach in his pants to eat
some! We had an amazing time. It turned out that one of the wrestlers
is a gay guy (I can’t post his picture because he’s not
out) – one of the guys who came with us met him as an internet
hook-up once. We hung out with him for a minute and I asked him to
model. He was a little apprehensive, but he said he would love to,
so we’ll see. He would be a great model.
When I got back home, I found Clover waiting up for me. We chatted
for a little while, than he got back to his writing, and inspired
by that sight, I pulled out my journal and began to write.
This is Love, taken that night at the school gym where they held
the wrestling match. The photos below are of some of the wrestlers.
You can see the tummy of the guy with the popcorn pants in the background
of the picture below.
We made fun of the guy in the picture above for having a mullet,
and he turned to us and grabbed his crotch and waved it in our faces.
It was hilarious.
