@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Caredig, The Adolescent [*] Slave

Prejudiced haters (what other kind is exists?) suggest that

slaves gives their affections falsely, and their bodies

promiscuously.  Poet, you purchased Caredig for a handsome

total of gold; handsome, perhaps, but nearly as beautiful as

he is.  Homophobic thugs, some of them criminally violent,

cannot gain access---by admission or otherwise---to the

property that is your farm, so Caredig is safe from their

lusts that are expressed as homicidal hatred.  in Caredig's

veins flow the bloodlines of Ethiopia and Wales, Egypt and

Akhaia.  His long hair has been braided into locks that he,

himself, call "dreads," for any lover of beauty would surely

dread to unravel such an artifice of beauty.  His supple

limbs have been meant, you believe, for the expression of

poetry through dance.  Right now, he is naked and barefoot

(later, when you offer him the gift of sheer silk stockings,

tinted yellow, and perfectly translucent except at the

heels and toes, he will cherish them with the utmost gratitude).

No old fashioned, and condemnatory disapprovals----from

your family, peers, or those who work the land of your farm---

can now obstruct your eagerness as, nearly naked yourself, you

kneed before Caredig.  His adolescent beauty is in its full

flowering; his tumescence bobs gently to the rhythm of his

pulse.  You take it into your mouth as his body shudders and

further stiffens with a surge of pleasure; and, as the most

erotic moan sounds from his slender throat, he releases his

sweetness on to your tongue, and the taste of it is far

finer, and (seems to you) more nourishing, than the

flavors of which beekeepers and vintners repeatedly dream.


J-Called

Author's Notes/Comments: 

* The reader is asked to keep in mind that the Roman culture at that time is not like our own; and adolescent slaves were not protected by any kind of legal age restriction as to the kind of intimacies in which they could participate.


Cedric, Beloved, this poem is for you.

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