Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Letter Twelve: A young swordsman in the basement.


Darling,
            I have fantasized about your upbringing many a time. I too was a little lad in British boarding school; we would steal swords from our headmaster and play knights in the basement. I do believe that if our tiny hearts had crossed each other’s path at that point in time, we would be inseparable little ones. I, tying bows in your dewy curls while you mend my sword's sheath…the two of us passing swigs of stealthily smuggled gin. Back then we would have never fathomed the intimate life we lead today, or rather, months ago when I was still in your arms. My wooden leg is doing well. The leeches have grown plump. I still fight like an ox. Well dearest, back to the trenches I go. I will be dreaming of your warm baths and sweet hole.

Your sword-slinging champion,
Bentley

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