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And she says: "You don't have to get on your knees when you say Ni Hao." And he looks up into her dark shining eyes, and says: "Its a pun. Knee how, like kneel - this how ? "He really did that ?" So Joe says Loveforlorn has been on his knees to every woman it becomes a possibility. Tie your shoe lace ? Says it feels good. And at his age what else has he got ? Says he's top-light. Needs to get his head out of the clouds, of a time or two.

So-Joe - I went to see the Chinese medicinal woman. Her office being painted and the painter there, and poured out my heart and soul. I like her. "But does she like you ?" Does anybody ? Well I really can't care. 'It is what it is', as the famous idiom framer has it. I liked her in the moment. Did-I put-on a flirting show or what ? But only half of what I could have, English her second language. I started off with a pun on an American idiom and she didn't get it. She said, "I'm Chinese." But she did pretty well, good enough. And so I don't care.

"So what's the verdict ? Are you sick ?" I am half-dead. I have good vitality, but she didn't understand how I was still walking around. I said, "Its because I'm seven/tenths dead already, given a hundred-years on the up-scale side, and I'm seventy". She didn't know me before, that I was so-old, most people guessing my age at fifty-three, and it is what it is. She has to decide. I give her all the hints. This is how I like it. And you may not like that at-all. So it is no-man's land for me.

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