MAN SEEKS WOMAN

Male

Thirty-something year old male requires female for companionship

I put the pen down before I used a full stop. I sat and wondered when would be the best place to tell them I was in a wheelchair? I sat and thought for two minutes while picking at a pimple on my right shoulder. I thought of all the pimples on my body and especially the stinky one on the right, halfway down (not Dominion rd) my back. I put the pen down and thought about my life ¬–__–––¬¬——-.

I could say

Well-travelled disabled man seeks female for lots of kissing and hugging.

No I couldn’t. I would get all the ugly chicks or the ones with lots of pets. What could I say? What could I say…? I sat upright and meditated before leaning into the table where I wrote in large print

Man with multiple disabilities seeks woman for friendship and possibly more?

I looked down and didn’t like the question mark or the phrase friendship. Saying the word friendship seemed desperate and I could already see the milk bottle lens glasses shining in the sun and their sick mothers calling them back home for help. I scribbled out what I had written and turned the page over. I wrote

Man under forty seeks woman. I am in a wheelchair and am unfit to work

I liked how honest I was with that but almost immediately recognised that most women would not feel comfortable with that truth so crossed it out.

Man seeks woman

Man seeks non-judgemental woman

Man seeks beautiful non-judgemental woman for relationship

No wait, what right does a brain damaged, partially paralysed and poor man have to a beautiful woman? I thought of all the hotties I had tried to chat-up who had smiled and said no so crossed it out.

I had used up the piece of paper I was writing on so looked for more. The A4 packet was empty so I went to the kitchen and looked for something to write on. I could only find one thing so ripped the back off the bran breakfast cereal. I thought about it as I was tearing and decided to fold the cardboard so the brand name was visible before I started writing. I wrote in large letters,

I need you; I want you and already love you.

I felt foolish for writing it but it was the last thing I had to write on in the house. I wondered wether to write my phone number, mobile or email address below? No, I had to say something about the wheelchair first. I would have to let them know, to avoid the embarrassment, theirs and mine.

Man in wheelchair seeks woman.

There, that’s it. That’ll have to do.

Andrew Stuart Buchanan

EEL AND KARAAGE CHICKEN

EEL AND KARAAGE CHICKEN

I guess I’m too lonely horny and desperate. It’s either that or the J was right when he said that social media has actually complicated things. That’s what I keep telling myself. I tell myself that’s it’s not just because I’m in a wheelchair. I try to fool myself into thinking otherwise. That’s what it is, social media. What other possibility is there? I keep seeing women who seem excited to see me. Maybe I’m just too lonely horny and desperate but I perceive a chance in their smiles. There’s another Japanese woman with a face more beautiful than the butterfly. I can hear you asking why I didn’t learn my lesson the first time? I did learn a lesson from Mitsubishi but it’s not the lesson I need right now. This Japanese woman always beams when I arrive. Throughout my meal I’ll catch her smiling at me. I eat the same thing every time I see her. Could that be why? Maybe if I chose something different I would have a chance. I thought women liked stability. I guess there’s nothing wonderful about eel and karaage chicken, hang on, there is something wonderful about it or I wouldn’t keep ordering it. It’s her face, that’s why I tried today. There’s something in her smile that reminds me of sunshine. Every time I eat there I catch her staring at me. I will sit blushing. She wields her heavy knife and steals my smiles. I’ve thought about asking her out for months. I’m not an idiot and I’m not socially inept (I don’t think I am) but life has changed for us all. I keep asking the wrong women. They smile as if they want some. I no longer know why they smile or what they want. It’s not as though I suddenly gained the courage from somewhere today. I saw another knife-wielder from the same place as her today. I was being lead in my wheelchair to Coles. He smiled as he offered a quarter bow and said hello. I offered the same and then thought I would ask about sunshine. I asked if the pretty chef with the fringe had a man? He stared at me with a dumb look and didn’t reply. He just stood with his mouth closed. I asked the same question again. He stared at me without expression and didn’t reply again. I thought of Mitsubishi so repeated the question s-l-o-w-l-y and used my forefinger against my forehead to indicate a fringe. I asked him if she had a boyfriend. He looked through me like a bored bouncer and still didn’t reply. I thought about punching him but asked a final time before he nodded viciously and said yes, yes, yes. I wondered what he was saying yes, yes, yes to? I started thinking. These days that’s all I do, I sit and think. Maybe if I didn’t think I would have more luck. Don’t think just do. No, that sounds too much like Nike. Just do? No, that sounds like something they print on t-shirts in Thailand. Maybe I should just not think? I should ask to be put back on anti-depressants so I cannot think and keep being happy when I’m actually lonely horny and desperate. Maybe then I wouldn’t mind so much. Maybe then I could enjoy my eel and karaage chicken.

Andrew Stuart Buchanan

EINSTEIN’S SPERM STAINS

I have a smart female friend who recently asked me why men are the way we are? I’d told her I had sore balls from excessive masturbation. She asked why all the wanking and fucking? Why all the cheating and lies? She wanted to know why we go to war and kill each other? My friend spoke of all the ills of the Western heterosexual male and wanted to know why? I’m not going to try to explain us and I’m not even going to try and defend us. Man just is. Not all men are scum but we are driven by what’s inside our balls. Even the nerds jerk themselves off to Anime cartoons of pain, humiliation and bondage. I don’t mean to offend anyone but our fathers wanked when they couldn’t have sex and their father’s did too and their fathers before that. For a man there’s nothing we can do about it, like Jerry Seinfeld said: we’re men, we have to do it; it’s part of our lifestyle.’I know what you’re talking about. I know that the females out there are screaming at your computer screen-but why the cheating and lies? Most men are normally limited by their options. When an opportunity arises some men take it, some men don’t. You know me, (unfortunately some of you do, Plllbbbbbbb) I took enough opportunity for ten men but now find myself here alone anyway.What I am trying to say is that there are good men out there, really good men but even they jerk-off. They masturbate to not cheat on their partner. Nobody should blame or chastise us. Men are part monkey. My friend loves her scientists. I hope the pedestal she places them on is not too lofty because they wank too. Just imagine Einstein sitting in his big green itchy chair. He has just finished formulating… some… I don’t even know what (not smart enough), when someone asks him if he would like his bicycle put in the back of his car for a ride home as it’s starting to rain outside? He lies and say’s that he is on a roll and will lock up when he is finished, he tells them he has a raincoat with a hood.

 

After the assistant leaves the great scientist locks the door, pulls the shades and sits back down in big itchy. Einstein has a photo book with lots of full figured girls posing in sexy positions which he pulls out from under papers and a book in the bottom drawer on the right hand side of his desk. He unbuttons his lab coat, undoes his belt, pulls down the zip and takes his pants and undies down his legs to just below his knees. His cock is already hardening as he thinks of what he’s about to do (you know… well I guess some of you don’t, it’s naughty). He loves the dark haired girl on page 13 in his magazine, her name states Gertrude but he calls her Judith. He pulls his hardening cock out of his cotton boxers as his hand slides up and down its length. As his gaze becomes more intense his hand starts moving faster and faster. He say’s in German, ‘I love you slut’, just as the telephone begins to ring. Einstein wonders if he made the phone ring by saying slut? He lets it ring three times before he answers it. He tells the caller that Einstein isn’t in, he lies and say’s that he’s the cleaner and that his name is Ralph before hanging up. His dick had gone limp from the distraction. He turns the page and sees another shot of Judith. She’s lying on her side with one arm covering the nipples of her gigantic boobs and her knees are tucked so that you can just see wispy pubic hair at the bottom of her enormous bum. Einstein focuses on that like a sniper at a target as he once again stokes his hardening penis, it keeps on getting bigger in his hand as he imagines Judith’s hot breath hovering above his knob. He suddenly loses control and ejaculates way into the air, he watches it and sees the moment when it has gained its maximum trajectory and the subsequent fall down all over his pants. The phone rings again as he takes some of the sperm off his pants with his hands. He flings it at the blackboard where it splats and starts sliding. Einstein mutters under his breath, berating himself for ejaculating too quickly as he answers the phone saying: hello Mario’s massage parlor, Mario speaking. The line is quiet so he hangs up and leaves the receiver off the hook. This gives him the opportunity to get a piece of paper to try and remove the rest of the sperm from his pants. Next time you look at a photo of him, look down around his groin and pelvis and that’s where you’ll see them, Einstein’s sperm stains.That’s when you’ll realize that none of us can help it.

Andrew Stuart Buchanan

SCRATCHED

SCRATCHED

I itched in the bath
so I scratched
I scratched until
I saw red
Seeing the blood pleased me
so I scratched some more
All over my body
but always leaving the face
Untouched
As long as you smile
I thought to myself
As I sat bleeding
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Bleeding and smiling
in the bathtub
Pain all over me like a rash
like fire
I was familiar with this feeling
knowing the harm but continuing
The quick rush from small gain
Scratching was just one more
The water was starting
to turn scarlet
Just as long as you smile
I said aloud
sitting in a bath of myself
As I said it a second time
A single fat pellucid tear
dropped down my face
Just as long as you smile

Andrew Stuart Buchanan