krebs cycle no ez A

"i masturbate a lot and i've never
masturbated alone in my
entire life," the masturbator-guy suddenly says to tex.
**
the masturbator-guy is real good-looking, too.
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"oh yeah?" says tex, nervously.
tex is not exactly bad-looking himself.
they are in tex's college dorm room at the time,
studying microbiology.
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"yeah," says the masturbator-guy. "even when i was just
starting out, i never masturbated alone.
always wanted to do it with somebody else around.
like now, for instance."
**
"er," says tex. "um," adds tex.
**
masturbator-guy whips out his cock,
starts masturbating. "we'll get back to studying
right after," says masturbator-guy.
**
"um," says tex. "um." tex is
nervous, and seems creeped-out. but tex doesn't look away.
**
soon, masturbator-guy goes off like
a rocket. sitting there in the chair right across from tex,
masturbator-guy whips off his shirt right before,
and then mops up his chest and belly
with a glob of kleenexes which
he then drops into tex's trashcan. so wet it goes "plop".
**
tex watches everything.
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"your turn," says masturbator-guy. "and actually,
the idea is to jerk off at the SAME time i'm
jerking off."
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"er," tex says. "this is too weird for me.  let's
just get back to studying, ok?"
**
masturbator-guy zips up and puts his shirt back on.
then he and tex do get right back to studying.
"next time, you'll join in," says
masturbator-guy. "you'll see."
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turns out masturbator-guy was right
about a whole lot of things that semester.
**
-- both he & tex eventually making
so much cream you'd think they were trying to answer
all the cumulative coffee prayers of the tired &
hungry masses.
**
at starbucks, they always chuckled. they didn't
take coffee back to tex's room, but
they could've, if they wanted.
**
next semester, the history of science.

--Carl Miller Daniels (This poem also appears in my chapbook Riot Act, published by Chiron Review Press in 2010.  The poem was first published in Zygote in My Coffee, Issue #68, October 2006.)