Summer Session With Our Forest Prince


This was originally dramatized on the Wanker Network, Autumn 1999.
 

Prologue du Bois 

Our portly, avuncular, geezer-Brit sits in a large wing chair. His fingers are steepled and he contemplates, you, the audience with a smirk. It is presumed we are in his living room at the family estate, Wowzer Hall in Jamaica.

"Tonight's narrative concerns the rhythmic intersection of privilege and vigour as our dynamic protagonist, a class of high-caste female graduate literature students, and a middle-aged naif all collide one summer afternoon in a college classroom. Let us begin our story with the Aulde Forest Prince. He is outside on the College Green, riding a lawn tractor. And thus we begin..."

Whirring and cutting of the mower-blades released heady green aroma. The blue clouds of rich oily gasoline fumes blended together into a ritualistic summer perfume, dispersing into the early rising heat of the verdant summer morning. The lush and fertile campus of the Biddle-Barrows Young Ladies Finishing School was in many ways a hot-house flower needing tender care; constant and vigilant, probing and persistent. 

The agent of this alchemy was a squat and manly John Deere lawn tractor. The guiding hand on the wheel was short-fingered, vigourous, and at times impecunious. A stocky and vital figure, clad today in faded green overalls with the non-regulation full-Cleveland white belt and patent leather shoes. There was an ominously large crank-spot above the knee. This is our hirsute and robust Forest Prince. Our dear FP was driving his multi-bladed chariot with abandon while listening to Parliament-Funkadelic through his headphones. 

His circuit today was on the Auld Green portion of the campus, which stood the one of the oldest buildings housing the honors programs; Binkster Hall. He was following the convoluted bass line on "Up For The Down Stroke" when a sudden discordant clang interupted his reveries. He'd hit a sprinkler head, again. Throwing the whirling knives into neutral, he dismounted from his toy-Clydesdale iron steed to investigate the damage. As the engine puttered away, a bird in one of the many high trees would have seen this unusual figure squatting down to have a look. A sibillant flatulance would have been heard. And for those downwind, experienced.

The sudden silence in this Arcadian interlude had been noted by several of the young women in elderly Prof Hector Marimacho's "Aspects of Post-Modern Structuralist Poetry". The windows had been open on this lovely early summer morning; and the tableau vivant thus presented featured our hirsute hero examining his stricken machine, as if it had been painted by Brueghel the Elder. Heedless of the outside world, our professor had bidden his young charges to turn their attentions to several of the following stanzas. One began with the epic turn:

A young lad arises, awaiting a test
To see if he's man, he'll try his darn best.

The challenge awaits against nature's worst foe,

Only HE can decide how far he can go.

The class was fighting to stay awake. Their discomfort was not noticed by Prof Marimacho, whose vision had been increasingly troubled and vertiginous. It was as if he was peering "through a glass dorkly". The necessary sentences were forming and shuffling to leave his brain. The horizon wobbled and pitched, then went dark. 

Our Forest Prince had just freed the mangled sprinkler head from the blade assembly when he heard sirens. The sirens peaked and quit as the paramedics ran into Binkster Hall. Curiosity aroused, the mower was forgotten. Shortly thereafter paramedics emerged with Prof Marimacho on a gurney between them. 

The comely and lissome students of "Aspects of Post-Modern Structuralist Poetry" watched the parameds take Dr Hector Marimacho away in a gurney. Birds twittered overhead as the sun shone down through the embowered canopy. Thoughts of transience and mortality competed with nagging notions of truancy and the necessary class credits. 

Our stocky and hirsute FP took instant stock of the situation, frozen in freeze-frame: a room full of empowered doe-eyed eco-femmes whose minds were about to be jump-started. He spoke in his distinctive profundo. "Let's pick up where you left off" Looks of surprise were exchanged, but since a decision had been made, the ladies meekly filed back into the classroom. 

Our Dear FP put on an exuberant pair of horn-rimmed X-Ray glasses, and followed the covey back into the classroom. All eyes followed his shaggy-butt self as he clopped up to the abandoned lectern. Being somewhat shorter than Prof Marimacho, he stood on a box and perused the anthology. His vigourously dimble-digits flipped through the pages, periodically stopping to scan a paragraph or two, while he licked his eyebrows in a blinding flash. The women were entranced, unbelieving, and amazed. 

The FP looked out over the classroom. Twenty pairs of eyes studied him. He in turn surveyed the class, and it was good. A festive panorama of freckles, golden tans, pale red-heads, coppers, mahoganies and ebonies greeted his appreciative gaze. Mr Happy began to stir and groan in his one-eyed dark confinement, a sub-audible tremor felt by all. He dressed left for success. A raven haired beauty in the back row spoke up. Distaste blemished her features. "We were reading this...ahem...poem" "Please continue, it you will, Miss...?"

The trail, it continues, from moonlight to sun,
The young man's victorious, the battle, he's won!
A young gentle lad, a babe at the start,
Has conquered his foes, found deep in his heart.

Her recitation provoked a pandemic of yawning, nodding, scratching and coughing. Notes were being passed. Cell phones were going off. 

"Hold it right there...this sucks!" 

The chatter and noise ceased instantly. Our Forest Prince had seized the high ground. 

"I'm going to read you something that is of more topical interest to you...It's a story, of a man and a woman. It has a big something for everyone...history, drama, romance, violation of class-boundaries, whatever"

 "This had better be good!" 

The challenge came from a steely-looking statuesque redhead, a late convert to the the Dworkinite-Mackinnon sect of Paramount Patriarchy. Her long legs scissor-crossed with crisp precision. Her taut firm bosom heaved for no man [recently]. 

The FP gave her a crinkly smile, wiggled his eyebrows, scratched his butt through his coveralls, looked her directly in the eye, and began his tale.

"Isolde figeted restlessly in her chair. The string quartet was becoming unbearable. They had been screeching away for the last forty minutes here in the Rotchakokoff Solarium and Music Arboretum. As the lapidary gem of the Wanker Dynasty, her deftly chiseled features revealed nothing of her torments.
Her raven black hair piled in a ravishing chignon dramatically set off her luminescent pale swan-like neck and shoulders. Her perfectly swelling bosom dramatically presented in her Fortuny silk concealed a wildly beating heart as her mind cast back to the times that had changed her life in ways unimaginable. Her very waking hours turned on the One who had touched her like none other. She was not thinking of her diffident and shallow suitors, mere boys in men's clothing who endeavored to ensnare her with their tired values and shallow, detumescent presences.
No. her thoughts cast back to the vigour and vitality that was and is Rugbert, Master of the Horse.

Intermezzo Anglaise 

Our portly, avuncular, geezer-Brit sits in a large wing chair. His fingers are recently re-steepled. He is being paid by the word, and he is picking them carefully.

"As you can see, Mr Forrest Prince has vaulted lightly into the cock-pit as it were, and is taking the class in a new direction. Some members of the class are not yet fully entrained in the rhythms, which will lead to some interesting denoument shortly...So let us return to the literature in motion at this time"

With the dramatic sentence ending with "vigour and vitality that was and is Rugbert, Master of the Horse." the Forest Prince looked up from under his bushy eyebrows, then licked them in a blinding flash. The class was absolutely still. 

A skeptical voice broke the silence. 

"Rugbert? Who the hell would name their son Rugbert?" 

It was his flame-headed Cassandra, she of taut bosom and Patriarchal Conspiracy Theories. The Old FP adjusted his horn-rimmed X-ray glasses and had a closer squint. His eyebrows wiggled about, and refused to lie flat. His 5 o'clock shadow had darkened visibly in the few short hours since dawn. He smiled slightly when he saw what she had in her bag. After all, they were x-ray glasses.

 "I'm sorry miss, I didn't catch your name" 

 His deep profundo rolled around the class like an 80lb Ebonite bowling ball. His mouth was a pursed cupid's bow. He waited. 

"Alexandra" 

The definitve emphasis was on the middle, with a flat "ah" in all instances. An arch enunciation. One who was used to a certain station in life, and not on the AM part of the dial. Alexandra fixed the FP with a steady gaze. She recognized an infidel when she saw one. But she needed more evidence of Coercive Abomination. She held her fire. The FP continued.

"Isolde at last could wait no more. She stood up in a rustle of silks and excused herself past her sisters, elder relations and guests in the Music Room and Arboretum. The quartet sawed on, reaching the dramatic climax of "Sonatas and Fugues for Anthracite" by Josiah Horneblende.

Her departure was noticed with acid clarity by Trevor Ricefield-Ratt, persistent longtime claimant to Isolde's affections. Several times he had almost secured her assent in matters carnal as well as spiritual, which would have consolidated his position in local gentry considerably. Not for nothing was he known as "the Sphinxter" in awed respect to his perpetual presence.

Isolde's elegant Venetian slippers pattered across the parquetry, a staccato tattoo to the string quartet. The butler opened the door, stifled a yawn and closed it behind her. Trevor got up swiftly to make for the door, but slipped and fell on the wooden floor. He recovered to push his middle-parted forelocks out of his eyes to see the rapidly receding Isolde in full flight, running across the curving lawns in the direction of the stables. He muttered a curse and lit up another Catamite Clove cigarette"

The FP paused. The class was rapt. 

"Anyone want to go back to that poetry you were discussing?" 

A sudden flurry of coughing and fidgeting, followed by a chorus of "NO!" 

When our Dear Forest Prince had posed the Poetry Question, he knew full well the likely response. For all of the likely posturing about High Art and Education, he knew deep down that his class of Soon To Be The Most Intelligent Yet Graduated In This Term wanted to get to the Good Shit. 

 It made him think back to his own undergraduate days, a long winter at Miskatonic University in the cold and eerie town of Arkham. Between classes devoted to the works of Ali Nazrullah and his Necronomicron, he had penned a ditty that earned him an exit from that gloomy vale. One verse in particular suited the moment:

As I pen this hearty ode,
I hear the wall clock ticking.
For "amor" it's "tempis fugit"
And my eyebrows need a licking.

And in the briefest instant, the paths of past and present converged in a high-speed merge. 

 "Shall I continue?" The old rogue was in his element. 

 "Oh yes! yes!" 

A sea of bright, upturned happy faces surmounting achingly sincere pulchritude and gently wafting free-range estrogen all around. Alexandra fixed him with her skeptical mien. He winked. She blushed ever so slightly. He thought about bringing in milk and cookies but decided it would have to wait. "Ah yes...where was I?.....here!"

"Isolde burst into the stable, her dark hair dishevelled from her sprint. The sudden arrival startled Obelisk, the prize stallion cross-tied in the aisle. Rugbert had his back turned to the doors whilst brushing him down. Isolde's perfumes wafted across the stallion's nostrils, and he reared up on his massive hind legs, eyes flashing and trumpeting his surprise. His mane caught in a gust, rippling in the afternoon light, echoed the snorting and trumpeting ringing from the rafters"

"Rugbert was nearly bowled over by the stallion's rearing. He whirled and faced the source of the disturbance. Isolde halted short. Her bosom heaved with the exertion, drops of sweat beaded her upper lip. Her eyes took him in at an instant, virile chest-hair swirling out of his half-unbuttoned linen shirt, hard tight buttocks surmounting sinewy thighs tightly clad in riding pants, supple leather riding boots well-worn but polished to a high shine.

"Rugbert!"

Rugbert's blue-gray eyes surveyed Isolde as a wild stallion would a mare on the wild Tartary steppe. His nostrils flared slightly as her bouquet tendrilled his sensibilities. He set down his brush. She stood still as he gently approached her. His hands delicately traced the curves of her lower back and thighs, inexorably drawing her closer. Her eyes closed and in a summoning swoon, her orchid lips parted as he gently, yet powerfully kissed her. She wanted to yield herself yet again, as she divined the presence of the lithic bulge and confirmation of Rugbert's primal man-root."

Redecolletage Necessaire  

The narrative voice pauses at this remove to give you, the gentle reader an update on the progress of our story. 

Picture if you will, that you and I together are a wide-angled surveillance camera witnessing academic verite in motion. Our shaggy-rumped Forest Prince has skillfully inserted himself behind the lecturn of a summer-session poetry class at the Biddle-Barrows Young Ladies Finishing School. 

Prior to this moment, he was driving a John Deere lawn-tractor cutting grass, pondering the mysteries of Poon-Tang Dynasty poetry when he dinged a sprinkler. While disengaging the cutter blades, his acute powers of observation serve him well when he notices that Prof Hector Marimacho was taken out of class on a gurney following an unspecified collapse. All those young women who have been thirsting for truth but ill-nourished on retrograde poetry were thus left marooned. 

Never one to leave well enough alone, our hirsute hero divined their needs, and lo! there he be. We now rejoin the drama in progress. 

Our Old FP as been reading from The Passion of Isolde, a work that is as florid and lush as any one could hope for; rich and deep, but easily absorbed in 15-minute intervals. Yet all is not quiescent in the class, there are elements that are chafing at the narrative thrust. Events will show the forces at work on Isolde and Rugbert, are working on them as well. Let's rejoin our bristly-eyebrowed interlocutor as he continues reading...

"...and she was acutely aware of the size and conformation of Rugbert's lithic manroot"

Our Forest Prince paused, looked up under his animated eyebrows.The class was deathly still. Gazing out over the class of young women, there was a distinctly studied look in the eyes of all present. In some instances there was a faint blush visible. 

Aaah, the power of literature. 

There was a stirring, and he noticed that Alexandra, she of the flat-A "ahs" was building up steam and ready to engage. 

"Manroot! Lithic! How completely....retrograde!!! Can't she see that she is the hapless pawn of a system that seeks her total compliance in a patriarchal conspiracy! Everywhere she turns she is confronted by predatory males...and lacking the proper insights she is helplessly drawn to the least vile m-a-n available" 

Whoa girl. She really felt about this. 

Our hirsute hero was somewhat sympathetic. 

 "And what would you envision in this scenario?" 

A pause. There was a general shifting in the class room. Another voice spoke up, coming from a slight black-haired beauty wearing Birkies and a short floral summer-dress. The pattern reminded the FP of gardens he'd romped in several years prior, but that's another story. 

"Would it be possible that Isolde was acting as an author of her own destiny in seeking out the best possible alternative, irrespective of class and economic boundaries and limitations?" 

Alexandra shot her a cold stare, and mouthed "bitch!". The brunette met her gaze, and gave a crooked grin, and blew her a kiss. 

 "Now we're starting to get somewhere" 

The FP came around from the back of the lectern, holding the book in his stubby vigourous hands. Hefting a butt-cheek onto a vacant desk, making himself comfortable in the process. His coveralls bunched up in his crotch, and he casually freed up his LoveGun from the garotte-grip of industrial fabric. His feet swung freely above the floor, white sox visible beneath the frayed cuffs of his coveralls. 

 "Let's see if Isolde is a victim as Ms Alexandra would suggest"

Isolde could feel herself melting in Rugbert's manly embrace. Her nostrils were teased by the spectrum of virile aromas; horse-sweat, leather, sweat, the smell of his linen shirt which had been sun-dried on the clothesline.

"I couldn't bear it anymore...I had to come see you..."

Her heart was thumping so loudly she feared it would drown out the sound of her voice. Rugbert answered in his characteristic smooth baritone.

"I was thinking about you too...wondering when you would arrive."

His voice thickened with desire. His nostrils flared. Isolde's fingers began to unfasten the silver buckle on Rugbert's riding breeches. She could feel his endowment seemingly uncoil and stiffen as it sensed a liberation at hand. He deftly began to unbutton the back of her silk dress, watching it change shape as it started to slide off her alabaster shoulders. Her nipples stiffened as they felt the breath of fresh air, even though it was limpid and mild outside. Her heartbeat was now a dull pounding roar in her ears. Rugbert's sure hand had ensured the final demise of dull conformity. Isolde felt herself going light-headed, and seeking to avert a swoon, collapsed to her knees in front of her Priapic Minotaur just as she pursed her full lips in a perfect "O", tongue tipped with moist anticipation of...."

Contemplative calm was suddenly interrupted with the sudden opening of the door, followed by a crashing of books on the floor. The commotion was caused by the sudden entrance of a short, round, frizzy red-headed woman of indeterminate age. She smiled uncertainly as her cascade of books and papers brought the literary spectacolo d'amore to an unwanted halt. 

 "Hi...uh...is this the class in Post-Structural Modern Poetry?" 

She smiled uncertainly in puzzlement. One of the women spoke up. 

"Actually this is Aspects of Post-Modern Structuralist Poetry" 

Oh" The intruder paused, then brightened. "I guess I'm at the right spot. I brought some of my poetry, and I want to read it to you....I'm Lady Gee-Spot!  

There had been an especially long pause. Sometimes the Literary Muse tarries on her serendipitous path. In this instance there had been several detours. It's like that when you drive a 1963 Nash Metropolitan. We now rejoin our story in mid-stream.... 

Lady Gee-Spot was in a bright mood. Now she was going to be able to read one of her special poems, especially for these bright young women. With no further ado she scooped her fallen books and papers into a heap and shovelled them back into her Earth Day Book tote-bag. She fished the promised poem from the depths of a dog-eared notebook and began to read.

On The Powers Of Ginger: A Poem by Lady Gee-Spot
I have found ginger to do exactly this. It is also a very good relaxer,
For When Love's Arrows are Hit Or Miss, It is My Forest Prince's Celestial Elixer.
When you first take it there may be a little hot feeling, In the middle or back of your throat. Suddenly a tempest, you think you are reeling,
It's high seas over for the little man in the boat.
I Take it with honey, and it is great!
I know much when I used to know nothing.
I credit this root for my vigor of late,
When the FP is pistoning my stuffing.

The morphic calm mentioned earlier had returned. The classroom was still. Only the sounds of birds and a faraway lawn-tractor could be heard. The women in the classroom were sprawled in agonized poses, eyes glazed over with only a bare hint of life.

Lady G-Spot stood transfixed with eyes at half-mast, smile on her face. A private reverie removed her from this plane. 

Our hirsute hero had maintained a composed facade during this exposition, but it was too close for comfort. She'd blundered into this classroom out of the blue, and there was every possibility she'd recognize him. Perhaps it was time to make a discrete move towards the door. 

Fate had other plans. Gawd's Invisible Magic Finger applied a wee dab of tabasco to Alexandra's perkily occulted nether rosebud. She sat bolt-upright and fixed Lady G-Spot with a gimlet stare. She was sure looking good as her lithe athletic torso showed off her cantilevered endowment to spectacular advantage.

The Forest Prince marveled at how beauty and calamity conspired holistically in these dicey moments. He maintained his poker expression, although a faint sub-sonic groaning noise was heard. The iceberg continued to scour the starboard side of the mighty ship as the orchestra played in the main ballroom; far, far away. 

"Although I'd like to express solidarity with your health-and empowerment issues...but...um...what is this root you are referring to?" 

Time enough for that, later. Much later. Our Old FP leaped into the breech by interrupting this unproductive line of inquiry, cutting off Lady G-Spot by fixing Alexandra with a winning grin and an eagle eye. 

"Alexandra, I think it's a swell idea if you were to read the next portion of our story!" 

Alexandra, she of the flat a's and the lithe, lissome endowment glared at our mufti'd satyr. He gave her a beatific smile, then licked his eyebrows in a blinding flash. She stared at him in disbelief, reddening all the while. 

He handed her the book and found her place. 

"It's right after 'Isolde felt herself going light-headed, and seeking to avert a swoon...'".

 "I know"

 There was gritted teeth and tension. Alexandra picked up the story where our Auld Sylvan Regent had left off. He was making himself comfortable in a swivel chair. He had relieved the strain on his bum caused by his overalls cracking him bigtime. This was going to be fun.

"...avert a swoon, collapsed to her knees in front of her Priapic Minotaur just as she pursed her full lips in a perfect "O", tongue tipped with moist anticipation of Rugbert's Jade Stalk.

All she could hear was the thumping drum of her heartbeat in her ears that drowned out the buzzing and chirping of the ever-receding world outside the barn. She felt Rugbert's strong tanned hands at her shoulders, gently caressing her earlobes. Her head was spinning...this was so much more fulfilling than the fumbled clumsiness of that despicably inept bounder, Trevor Ricefield-Ratts, who was forever endeavouring to maneuver his narrow-gauge funicular device into her Orchid Bower.

Her nostrils flared at the clean manly scent of her equine lover. She lavished her pent-up passion on his Celestial Dragon, conveying by gesture and motions the depths of her true affections. Isolde felt herself coming into sunlight, and being eased back onto the new-mown hay on a cashmere throw, and opened herself to receive the Full and Massive-Girthed Edifice that was Rugbert.

Transports of ecstacy made her exquisitely porcelain skin ripple with goosebumps. Her toes pointed exquisitely as the two lovers conjoined in rhythmic delight. But in this world of sunshine and delight, a small black cloud crossed the sky. The shadow of the Unclean was about to be. Isolde opened her eyes in premonitory shock.

"Trevor! What are you doing here?!?"

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