Scenes from Central Park on a Day Off from Work
(excerpts transcribed from my notebook)
2:20 pm
I’m in Central Park and it’s gorgeous out! I have the day off. This is glorious. I’m in an undershirt and jeans. It’s bright and sunny and warm… I’m in rapture. On top of that, a cutie just sat down nearby on this area of grass. I was going to sit on the Great Lawn but it’s not open for the season yet, so here I am.
I feel like I’m back at UVA… all week, through the sun on Monday and the rain and crap the rest of the week, I missed UVA. Longed for the Lawn. I’d open up the RotundaCam and want to bawl.
I’m in awe of the cutie. He’s sort of a punk/skater-looking guy. He’s lying on his back smoking a cigarette. Maybe 19 or 20. Navy blue t-shirt, gray pants, his shoes and socks are off.
God, this feels foreign. The weather. We’re all on another planet. We’re all giddy, we don’t know what to do with ourselves.
I want to fall in love. This is how I want my summer to be. I meet someone at the party next weekend. We start dating. It’s instant love. Every weekend we come to Central Park with some sunblock and some books and we chill out and read and talk and look around and wander through each other’s minds. He has a goatee, he’s a total top or total bottom, or neither actually, I just like the phrase “total bottom.” We spend entire weekends together. We spend the afternoon in the park and stay here in the park until it gets twilight. Then we go back to his place, have sex, change, go out. We go out to eat and then we go to bar, a club, wherever. We enjoy ourselves, we enjoy each other.
I need a bathroom. Time to get up.
5:55 pm
On the grass, across from the back of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A shirtless guy several feet from me, his back to me, he’s sitting, his arms are around his knees, causing his skin to stretch taut across his back muscles, his smooth skin so close I can almost imagine myself licking it with my tongue…
Two straight guys, one tall, wearing roller blades, accentuating his calves as roller blades always do, wearing dark blue athletic shorts and a dark blue backwards baseball cap with a white Y on it… bends over to tighten a shoe and I want to fuck him, right there…
Dark-haired young guy in jeans and white undershirt, sideburns, nice teeth, cute, sitting right behind me…
Group of Asian guys and an Asian girl, all in tanktops, throwing a white volleyball, loud and fun and muscled Asians…
People lying down and stretching their body parts after a run… half the yuppies in Manhattan jogging past…