[while my mother languishes in March, allow me to speed backward into the future]
I once was made fun of for her. She doesn't know. She can't--I would die of insincerity. But it's true blue.
What I said was that she has kissable lips. Really kissable; they're not like no other lips you ain't never seen. By which I mean to say that sometimes when I'm talking to her I forget to look at her eyes and instead I think about grabbing the back of her head and pulling her in to a really passionate kiss. Then I realize how very unkissable that thought is and how tremendously tired and old I'm getting and I just sit back down in the back of my kind and I don't think about her lips for a while.
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Um. Hmm.
ReplyDeleteSo first: "speed backward into the future." I particularly love that. It reminds me of the Greek philosophical hypothesis of backing into the future (because we can only see the present and the past). Also, you know, *Back to the Future.*
This reminds me of Darcy praising Elizabeth's "fine eyes" after saying she wasn't "handsome enough" to tempt him.
I don't understand why the speaker would "die of insincerity" while "it's true blue." Unless, of course, she wouldn't believe him.
Why is that thought "unkissable"? It seems rather sweet, actually.
What does "in the back of my kind" mean? I have guesses, but I think they are less fun than your answers might be.
Anyway, I like this. It . . . hm. It reminds me of the time my mom and sister (who could cook) went on a Pathfinder trip that my dad and I couldn't go on for some reason, and my dad wouldn't let me cook, but he only knew how to make grilled cheese sandwiches, so we ate those and black olives pretty much all weekend. Making that make sense would probably take more brainpower than I command at present, but it means that I really liked this, okay?
Ok. I'm glad you liked it.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a kissable thought, Janelle. It all depends on perspective, and it's not a kissable thought for all but 0.00000001% of the population, I think. Anyway, nobody should ambush with kisses. Bad news.
I suppose you have a point there.
ReplyDeleteYeah, an ambush kiss--well, ambush sort of sums it up. Now, if I were married, it might be different, but I definitely would not want a crush or a boyfriend or whatever ambush kissing.
ReplyDeleteWhat strikes me is that the options for thinking are her lips and not her lips (which, in its own way, is still about her lips). Maybe that says something about how people think.
Yeah. Ambushes are bad bad bad.
ReplyDeleteOne other thing, though: an ambush is always (intended to be) a surprise, but not all surprises are ambushes. (And, for once, "ambush" isn't in the text.)
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