{"id":5885,"date":"2026-08-28T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:09:24","slug":"extracts-from-skinny-dippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/extracts-from-skinny-dippin\/","title":{"rendered":"Extracts from Skinny Dippin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usta could fall in love, took the tumble<br \/>\nmany times, saw so many dreams crumble<br \/>\nthat I get nervous going up where I might slip.<br \/>\nWho am I to say? Some body wants to skinny-dip<br \/>\nwith alligators, that\u2019s their personal choice,<br \/>\njess them listening to their inner voice.<br \/>\nLike Virg did, Virg who was my bro.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bea&#8217;s put on <\/span>put on quite a show<br \/>\nthat night, took him on a ride, using all her charms.<br \/>\nThey passed out in a tangle of legs and arms.<br \/>\nVirg\u2019d held her close, her body, not her soul,<br \/>\nmost of the night long, but not the whole.<br \/>\nSoon as he pried his eyes open, groping<br \/>\nfor her missing warmth\u2014maybe hoping<br \/>\nto do it again\u2014 all he got, a handful of sweet<br \/>\nnothin\u2019, jess a cool rumpled sheet<\/p>\n<p>Crippled sick with grief and sorrow,<br \/>\nhe sang made-up words for tunes he\u2019d borrow<br \/>\nfrom HubCap, repeating like a broke record\u2014<br \/>\nHell, A whole broke jukebox!\u2014Lord<br \/>\nknows how many errant versions of<br \/>\nof HubCap\u2019s best hits: <i>Just Testing My Love,<br \/>\n<\/i><i><\/i><i>Wherever I Look All I See Is You,<\/i> plus<br \/>\nanother fav, <i>Why You Makin<\/i>\u2019 <i>All This Fuss.<br \/>\n<\/i><i><\/i>Born into heartbreak, heartbreak brings us song.<br \/>\nThose who can\u2019t sing for shit can mumble along,<br \/>\nbunglin\u2019 the words, like Virg does. Don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics of love lost are pitter-patter<br \/>\nwe know by heart, who\u2019ve all been compelled<br \/>\nto lose what we want and, too briefly, held.<br \/>\nThe rest is jess so much yakety-yak.<br \/>\nVirg knew, we know, they never come back.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>As submitted July 2026. \u00a0Full text <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/entwistedtongues\/\">alteritas.net\/entwistedtongues\/<\/a>. Adaptasyion <\/em><em>Kouri-Vini <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/naje-nu-avek-kokodri\/\">isit<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usta could fall in love, took the tumble many times, saw so many dreams crumble that I get nervous going up where I might slip. Who am I to say? Some body wants to skinny-dip with alligators, that\u2019s their personal choice, jess them listening to their inner voice. Like Virg did, Virg who was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/extracts-from-skinny-dippin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Extracts from Skinny Dippin&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5896,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}