Summer of ’77

 

didn’t think much of it then . Just a little sweaty from time to time  and

 

very sweaty from time to time , making love in the summer  heat  .Did we

 

even have a fan ? Not that I remember .

        

         That was the summer of affirmed and the triple crown . I won

 

money  at the  OTB    while watching the race  in a bar nearby while

 

Lovey  was working . Then I went to get her and she would feed me for

 

free while she waited on me and others . 

        

         One time  I was  out dancing with her friends in a gay disco , what

 

did I know , which may have been called the Swamp , and I  was  almost

 

picked up while eating pistachio nuts minding my own business  , 

 

oblivious . I danced up a storm  in the disco with her friends , they may

 

have seen the pickup  and decided to make sure I was protected or more

 

closely watched   .  I didn’t think  much about cheating with

 

them , but I did think about it from time to time . I remember one

 

buxom brunet  was full figured and toned .

 

Another one was blonde and thin but not to thin and she only shaved her

 

legs to just above the knee and the rest of her legs was covered by light 

 

blonde peach fuzz . I was just enjoying being one of the girls .

 

Little did they or I know  that I was more comfortable with them then

 

any men I knew   . I remember them trying to figure me out , still

 

working on it myself.

        

         We got along fine ,  as far as I knew ,  when I met a stranger ,  a

 

hippie sort , on the street who was very friendly toward me  . They

 

seemed to like him for some reason [ very fast talker  and I don’t take 

 

kindly to that sort ] . The four girls even invited him ,  or he invited

 

himself  , to share their place for some extra money .They had some

 

room because  they had a rich older man that one of them knew living

 

there who was only around some weekends . I told them I did not know

 

this person but  he seemed to push his way in and I don’t think he

 

pushed to hard and perhaps the girls found him attractive , I didn’t  .I 

 

found out much later he was supposedly an undercover cop or snitch 

 

who later told me that he was busted and did not give me up , more

 

bullshit fast talking it seemed to me .   Something was going on there but

 

it wasn’t anything much for me , oblivious .   Maybe I looked suspicious

 

sitting on the street ,  in front of the boutique , and in the park watching

 

the world go by  day after day with a beat up old car and  long hair right

 

in the middle of the Southampton  society . I wanted   him to sell me

 

drugs which  he never did and was always  telling me how he had so

 

much . Either a close call or just a weird person  , who knows ? I was just

 

happy to be there and enjoying  the  atmosphere  . So I went merrily

 

along and had summer of sex , food , friends , beaches and drugs . 

        

         Lovey  and I  loved to  eat  psychedelics  .  We would drop some ,

 

drive  to great adventure and ride the rides .  More then one time we

 

drove all the way  there from Southampton ,  like

 

we couldn’t find something fun to do where we were .   Just driving and

 

laughing like hell at just giving money out the window of the car all day