Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Frankie and Johnny




Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts.

Frankie was a flower child who walked with a swinging gait in well-worn Earth Shoes, her unrestricted breasts left to sway to and fro with the tidal rhythm of a Moon Goddess as she searched for inner peace. She meditated daily, snorting Lucky Charms and the powdered wings of pre-migratory butterflies.

Johnny made a living stealing cars parked on poorly lit back streets, surreptitiously enticing current through the wires of venomous ignition switches, like a West Virginia preacher cajoles the Evil out of poisonous serpents.

Frankie was a vegan who drank only spring water and browsed on the leaves of freshly picked Romaine lettuce while delicately nibbling organic almonds for sustenance.

Johnny lived for months at a time on Jack Daniels, raw meat and deviled eggs.

Their dichotomous relationship was the Ying and the Yang of positive-negative polar opposition, but when they mounted Johnny’s bike their souls merged to work in perfect synchronicity.

Communicating through subtle, unspoken signals Johnny would twist the wick as Frankie threw back her head, finding the perfect symmetrical equilibrium to ride the rear wheel of Johnny’s Knucklehead through the barren, concrete streets of Bakersfield.


7 comments:

  1. A stroke of literary genius that one mate, surreptitiously and dichotomous within the same blurb, major kudos, oh reclusive wordsmith.

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  2. Agree with Señor Psycho. Additionally, Bakersfield is an underutilized backdrop setting for fiery and unbridled romance. Well done.

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  3. Thanks Whitey. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

    Bakersfield is the Paris of southern California. The jewel of western democracy.

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  4. I thought Fresno was the armpit of civilization, at least I've been led to believe that by former Fresnans...now living in the Northwest. I thought Harley's went 'potatoe, potatoe...maybe as they get closer to Davis and Sacramento it changes pitch to 'tomato, tomato'.....

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    1. Bakersfield is the armpit, Fresno is the sweaty under boob and Lodi is the taint of California. But I failed geography in school so don't quote me on this.

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