@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; At The Lighthouse Of Alexandria, Circa 32 BC

Only Kaisarion noticed the boywhore's covert beauty; and

commanded both his manumission and that we give him the

utmost attention to bathe him and coif his hair (once we had

washed away the matting, and loosened the tangles).  As an

afterthought, he sent the Inimitable Livers, his guards, to the

exploiters, to compensate them for troubles caused . . .  to, and

not by, the urchin.  (I believe I heard, somewhere, that

their carcasses were thrown to the River's crocodiles.)  Then,

Kaisarion---Pharaoh, Lord of the Two Lands, King Above All

Other Kings, and Supreme Governor of its Temples---requested a

private visit to one of the upper decks of the Lighthouse:  and

now he and his new friend, half reclining on the floor just one

level below the great light, and the mirrors behind and

reflective of it, have joined their limbs to an ardent embrace,

kissing with open mouths, their tongues swriling around each other.

Shy giggles, at first, gave way, rather quickly, to gasps and moans of

pleasure:  not the mighty Ptolemy XV Caesar with one of his subjects

(inhibited old prudes and prejudiced haters have recently expressed

offensive opinions), but just two slender, playful adolescents, their

long-hair cascading over their nakednesses, except for their legs---

sheathed in stockings, Koan silk, flawlessly translucent except for the

soft opacity of the doubled weave that ensheathes their toes.


Starward

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

In this poem, and anywhere else the name Kaisarion appears, I am using this form because it was favored by the great Poet, Constantine Cavafy, whose poems about Love (what prudes and haters call "that kind of Love") achieve an exquisite degree of beauty and emotional truth.

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