{"id":165,"date":"2001-09-17T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2001-09-17T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2001-09-17T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2001-09-17T22:04:09","slug":"doorbell-woke-me-hours-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Doorbell woke me.&nbsp; Hours ago.&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doorbell woke me.&nbsp;  Hours ago.&nbsp;  It was Bobby the cab driver, not Bobby the one I love.&nbsp;  Funny, it interrupted a dream of Bobby the one I love:.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div><i>He was standing in the sun, turning as if he had just started to walk away, or as if something behind him had drawn his attention away from me.&nbsp;  His hair was not the usual light brown, thinning and receding slightly.&nbsp;  His hair in the dream was thick and long, it was so bright it looked white, even luminous.&nbsp;  His body was the same as in real life, trim and muscled, sexy.&nbsp;  But even that seemed different; his skin had more than just the usual warm glowing tan.&nbsp;  It seemed brighter, too, in a way, and more precious, more valuable &#8212; like gold that had turned to platinum.&nbsp;  <\/i><\/div>\n<p>Before answering the door, while stumbling around still half-asleep, I thought maybe the dream was a premonition; I thought that maybe it would be Bobby at the door, the one I love.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>It was the cab driver.&nbsp;  He&#8217;d shaved his head since the last time I saw him.&nbsp;  &#8220;Today&#8217;s not a good day,&#8221; I croaked, my eyes still squinty with sleep.&nbsp;  Bobby the cab driver comes when he wants to fuck.&nbsp;  We suck and lick &#8212; never kiss &#8212; and he bends me over and pumps it in.&nbsp;  Then he leaves.&nbsp;  Quick simple sex.&nbsp;  He&#8217;s the same age as Bobby the one I love (31), but he&#8217;s not half as cute, and not near as sexy.&nbsp;  Later on, when I&#8217;m horny, I&#8217;ll think, &#8220;Why the hell did I let him go?&nbsp; Why didn&#8217;t I just let him do me?&nbsp; Jeesh.&#8221;.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I dreamt of Bobby the one I love the night before last as well.&nbsp;  In that dream his naked, lanky, sleeping body was suspended just slightly above my head and to my left in the branches of a tree; his limbs were splayed out in a random though comfortable pose, his face and pelvis were both turned away from me, concealing their details.&nbsp;  I thought, &#8220;He is peaceful there, I should not disturb him.&#8221;.&nbsp; The tree was in the city.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>When I woke I had to wonder why I saw him in a tree; one never wonders these things while dreaming them.&nbsp;  It seemed as if he had fallen from a great height and, caught by the branches of a tree, was uninjured and peacefully asleep.&nbsp;  But for some reason that made me very sad, I was not allowed to touch him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doorbell woke me.&nbsp; Hours ago.&nbsp; It was Bobby the cab driver, not Bobby the one I love.&nbsp; Funny, it interrupted a dream of Bobby the one I love:.&nbsp; He was standing in the sun, turning as if he had just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cab-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}