I Know (2012)

Softer than a rose petal..
warmer than the sun that makes it grow..
these are thoughts that come to mind whenever...
I look at you..
and girl that's how I know../

/More beautiful than a Western Sunrise..
More exciting than a sudden surprise..
these are thoughts that come into my mind...
and that is why...
my heart says that I know../

I know
that even though you don't know my name..
that you've been what I've been trying so hard
to find...
I know..
that it's something that no one can explain....
I just know that you're gonna be mine....
and I don't care how long or how much time it takes...
I just know you're gonna be my girl...
and I'm prepared to wait.../

Cooler than a tropical Breeze..
blowing across the Carribean Seas.
These are thoughts that put my mind at ease
whenever I'm with you..
and girl that's how I know../

Yeah, I know that you don't even know my name..
but I feel I've got nothin to lose and even more to gain..
these are the thoughts that come to my mind
and baby that is why..
my heart tells me I know.../

/ I know that
one day you're gonna know all you need to
know about me..
I know that one day you're going to write
the best chapter of my life's history...
because I know that you're the one..
the one I've been tryin so hard to find..
and I'm not gonna stop until I make you mine..
and I know...

We'll Make love under the moonlight one night..
I'll make you scream in ecstacy under the moonlight one night./

  /I know these things to be true...
girl, I know-

I know these things about me
and you..
I know./

(Reprinted...Originally published on July 28, 2008 without illustrations)

6:00 AM and Beyond

My name is Ralph Scallion...I'm a cook...Well I'm more than that..I'm a chef..Top Chef at the Bottom of The C. Seafood Bar and Grill.....It's Six AM in the morning and I'm awake...

I had to stop and drink some water....What a night I had last night...Phew...Didn't even mean for this to happen... My girlfriend...Minay is in London, visiting her folks..This is the second time this year she's gone....It's been three weeks ..She won't be back until the first of the month and oh well...a man has needs...

I took my daughter's mother, Rowena out to Josies.... Reed Nelson was playing tonight...Seemed like everybody was there...We were definitely seen by the town....but I don't care...We had some drinks, heard some good jazz and ate some chicken wings and some ribs with some barbecue sauce...

After Josie's let out,Rowena and I wound up at the Aqua Bar, having some more drinks
and from there, we wound up at my place...

''Fool ,I thought you was taking me home." she laughed..

"I was....I am.." I laughed...

"Ralph, you're drunk." she said...

"I aint that drunk....Come here Ro..." I said.

"Awwwww..Uh Uhhhh...You got a girlfriend...I aint goin there Ralph..." she laughed...

I pulled her to me and gave her  a big wet kiss, She kissed me and it was on..we started making out.......I fondled those large breast of hers ,.and began kissing her neck...She unzippered my trousers.....

''OHHH GOD RALPH...you is hard as a rock...OHHHHHH." she exclaimed...

She was wearing a short mini dresss....I hiked it up and pulled her panties down and stretched her across the bed and mounted her...

"Ouuuuuuuu...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RALPHHHHHHHHHHHH...LAWDDD." she moaned as I began stroking her...

She wrapped those big legs around my back and with my pants down around  my ankles , I stroked Rowena on the bed like sex was going out of style...She cooed and hollered to the top of her lungs....

My neighbor banged on the wall ,like he usually does-

"HEYYY QUIET THE NOISE...COME ON...I'M TRYIN TO SLEEP"! he yelled.

Hater!

THis went on for close to an hour and a half, the bed's headboard slamming into the wall...The legs of the bed squeaking ...the bed squeaking...and Rowena moaning and squeeling at the same time..

We both came furiously and I collapsed on her...breathing hard...

"Damn...I didn't want this to happen...I knew we couldn't just go out on a friendly night and not wind up in bed." she said.

She had a look of disgust on her face, yet she was still fondling my penis with her soft hands...

It wasn't long before we had all of our clothes off and was under the covers ,making slow ,sweet love...less bed squeaking, but with both of us moaning in pleasure...

"AWWW FOR GOD'S SAKE...I'M MOVIN.....WILL YOU TWO GO TO SLEEP??" screamed my neighbor.

"AWWWW PAPI...PAPI....OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.." she moaned.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHH RO......" I moaned..

"OHHH SHUT UP THE NOISE, Please!!" yelled my neighbor.

We both came furiously , while he was still yelling and banging on the wall...We finally fell asleep....

But it's six am now.... I'm awake....Ro is awake... I'm drinking a bottle of cold water.

Rowena sat on the side of the bed.....She looked like she had a hangover from the night before.

"What did we do Ralph?" she said...

"You know what we did." I say as I put a pot of  hot water on and poured some grits in the boiling water.

'What'chu doin?" she asked.

"I'm fixin us some breakfast." I said...Putting some cut sausage in another pan and fixing some shrimp in yet another....

"Mmmm smells good Ralph...Grits, Sausage and Shrimps huh?" she said.

"Yeah, I used to cook this back at the spot remember?" I said.

"So you gonna tell Minay when she comes back?" she asked.

"Are you crazy?" I asked.

Rowena just laughed- "You dog...I never thought you would." she said.

I laughed too and put on a pot of coffee.

I Can Do Things

Cherry Johnson had to wonder why Roscoe had called her and asked her to come over to his new apartment on a Saturday Morning...If it was for sex...He had a big surprise coming...Wasn't going to happen!  They had gone there once...She had to admit...It was the best sex she'd ever had in her life...but she did not want to be involved with him in that way..She only wanted to be his friend..

 He pulled her to him gently and kissed her in the lips...She didn't resist him...She loved the way he smelled..Whatever he was wearing smelled great...and the smell of liquor on his breath was equally intoxicating...She felt herself getting aroused and moist, even though she didn't want to...The next thing she knew , she and Roscoe were standing there in her living room kissing passionately and making out like two high school kids...She felt his erection in his pants...He was huge...like a horse!! She thought...She allowed her hands to feel it!!!  She was astounded!!!!She was getting even more aroused!!

Her common sense got to her...She could not do this...Not with him..She stopped kissing him and moved his hands away..

Since the night they had slept together and she had rebuffed him afterwords...She hadn't seen or heard from him...She thought that maybe he was angry..In their phone conversation, he assured her that he was not.
She had tried to get out of going to see him by saying she had to go to the laudromat...He had countered by saying-

"Bring your laundry here...I live in a nice loft...it has a laundromat in the basement...I'll even do your laundry for you." he said.

"No..you are not going to be looking at my panties and bras." she joked.

"Stop being silly Cherry. Just come over." he said.

She drove to his loft with laundry in tow...She was serious..This was going to be a "friendly visit." No sex.

She arrived with two bags of laundry...She was impressed with his loft...It was modern and great and had a nice indoor parking lot...

"This one of Chess and Chris's places?" she asked..

"Of course...How else would I be living here for so cheap." he smiled..

He was a perfect gentleman, took her laundry to the laundry room, let her sort it out and put her clothing in the washing machines and then he provided her with detergent and coins...

He waited for her to come up to his loft.... He had a delicious Spanish Omelet and Virgina Honey Bacon platter prepared for them both with two tumblers of mimosas, toast with jelly...

He's really laying it on thick, Cherry thought....Still not going to sleep with him...He's gonna be real disapointed , going to all this trouble for nothing...she mused.
They sat on the floor and ate and watched videos on VH1 on his 60 inch Flatscreen TV...After they finished eating...She returned to the basement, put her clothing in the dryer and turned toward Roscoe.

''Roscoe...I'm not going to sleep with you...This was nice and all..letting me do my laundry and making breakfast for me...but it changes nothing...I-I don't want to go there with you." she said.

"I can't even have a kiss?" he asked. Here we go...I knew this was coming. She thought.
She frowned at first, then she  relented...

It was a good long sensuous kiss...It lasted way longer than she had wanted...but then, she couldn't resist...She thought about feeling to see if he was erect...but she knew he was...Thinking about how huge he was and how much she really wanted him inside of her would have only made things worst, so she resisted...but God, he smelled good..She thought!

Finally she broke their embrace....

"Okay...Okay..That's enough...I'm going to get my things and go home now...Breakfast was nice....You-You have a nice place here." she said.

"It's okay Cherry...I'm not trying to seduce you...I just wanted to spend time with you and I have...When you're done...you're free to go." he said.

"Just like that huh?" she said.

"Yup...I don't chase after women...I've never had to....I've made it clear how I feel...Now you're either with the program or you're not.....If you are..you know where I live and you have my number....If you are...you know that I'm a man....I can do things........Goodbye Cherry." he said and headed up the stairs....

She could still smell his cologne, long after he had left to go back to his loft....She was moist and full of more desire for Roscoe than she could have ever imagined at that moment!

What A Surprise!

Cassandra began to kiss him passionately...He eased his hands up her skirt and began massaging her butt cheeks with those large hands of his...She was definitely turned on now....He kissed her neck..in between her breasts and behind her ears...She shuttered...

''Ouuuuuuuu...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.."she moaned... 'Come....Come...Come here bab-baby" he said...

Darren's hands were shaking and she was turned on by the way he stuttered and seemed uneasy...She had been throwing hints at him for months that she was interested in him and yet he unlike all of the other guys in the office who were always making passes at her , Darren had seemed to resist a little...He talked a good game, but everytime they were supposed to hook up something always came up..Same thing had happened with several women he had flirted with...He was a big tease!

Finally, after a night of drinking at Josies...Darren had told her she could come to his apartment...He was certain that his room-mate was out...She suspected that his room-mate was a female and that it was a platonic relationship.

It took him a few minutes but...he had her dress off and she kicked her heels off...He slipped her panty hose down to her ankles and she stepped out of them and he had her bra off in mere seconds.... She unzippered his trousers and un bottoned his shirt...His undershirt was off and he had stepped out of his socks very quickly...He kissed her from her nick down to her panty line and she moaned and shook..As he backed her up against the wall and began french kissing her like nobody's business..

Her hands drifted down and squeezed his massive penis and began gently stroking it... He responded to that....he spun her around and eased into her from behind....Oh, he likes it doggie style!! She thought and giggled to herself.....I thought he was a freak! she thought to herself once again!

"OHHHHHHHHH RODERICK!" he yelled as he entered her from behind and began going to town... "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she screamed in pure ecstacy and then thought..."Roderick??  My name is Cassandra." 

 "Roderick??  My name is Cassandra."

Just then the door swung open ...It was his room-mate... A Man!!  A big six foot , strapping man!!!! He put his hands to his mouth and screamed in horror... "OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD..DARREN??...YOU'RE CHEATING ON ME!" he screamed, then jumped up and down and threw a mini tantrum!...

He exited her rear end and tried to explain in a panic..."I AM SOOO SORRY RODERICK....I WAS DRUNK....I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU!" he said. She stood there butt naked looking at the whole thing in pure amazement!

Roderick rose his left hand palms up and turned his head away- "DARREN!!! DARREN, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT....OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD!! And with a woman....Do you know what you want?" screamed Roderick....

"I want you Roderick....You...It's just that I was drinking....I was drunk...I swear." said Darren.

How could he think that she was Roderick???? Uh uhhh...Stevie Wonder could see through this lie she mused as she gathered her clothing which was strewn all over the living room floor....All of the women on the job salivated over this man and here he was on the DL!!! Wow~!   He also was in denial too she thought..

What a surprise! Cassandra gathered her underwear and her clothing and slowly dressed and slipped past the two men, one who was sobbing uncontrolably and the other who was busy trying to explain his indescretion...That part wasn't surprising she mused as she let herself out.

A Night Out At Josies

A Friday night at Josies.... Sepia and I walked in...Sean Jackson and his wife Sheila was right behind us...The joint was packed...We saw Harry Charles and his wife, Bernadette at a table with Clerow and his wife, Corabeth...Chris Thompson and his lady friend were at a table....His partner, Chess and his wife ,Rell were out also...Kool Kat and Chelsea were at the bar and they waved to us as we got seated in our booth...I saw Robert Foxworth and Bonita coming in...I waved them over and they joined us in our booth...

"Hey Kev, Sepia..Sean..." said Robert Foxworth as he and Bonita joined us and Honey Brown took their drink orders...

Reed Nelson and his band was playing tonight and "88" had joined them on the keyboards..At one table, We saw his wife, Debbie, Her sister, Delores and her boyfriend, Trumpet player,Downtown Rob Brown and 88's fiance, Mabel Jenkins and her pregnant sister, Victoria....Also in the audience was Bone Hampton, a trombonist, Meek Rollins, producer and Symphony Sam...another musician and band leader who was sharing the bill and perfoming the next Set.

Donald Smooth,Owen Todd ,Roscoe and Ralph Mole were also at the bar, drinking,laughing and talking as was the other attorney, Conrad Nelson and his wife Jill... In yet another booth, I saw the youngins..Attorney Chance Howard, Anita Jenkins...Paris and his lady friend, Blake and Cherish, Cole and Nicole Butler and Jacques and Megan... Ralph Scallion was off from his job at Bottom of the C.  and was here with Rowena, his daughter's mother...Not his Afro -English girlfriend...Wonder what was up with that?

Gus came over to serve us drinks....and chew the fat....

"Hey Gus....You never told me how you got this place....Josies...I mean." I said.

Gus smiled and said.  "And it's too long a story to tell you tonight....but I'll tell you this much....When I bought this place...it was called "Joe's Bar"

"Joe's Bar, now that's original." I joked.


"You're right....and that's why I changed the name to Josies...." He said.

 'Was Josie someone special?" asked my wife, Sepia.

"She was a gal I knew a long time ago...a long time." said Gus with misty eyes..".I figure , there's a "Joe's Bar" in every city, every town....But not a Josies.." continued Gus.

Hmmmm, Sean Jackson and Robert Foxworth nodded...Sepia, Bonita and Sheila surprisingly nodded too...I thought to myself....Good point Gus.

"I know." he laughed ,almost as if he heard my thoughts.

Mabel Dreams

Mabel Jenkins stepped into the hot shower.....The hot soapy water splashed all over her dark brown voluptuous body... She saw a dark silhouette enter the bathroom...She smiled...He slowly opened the  shower door....She giggled..
He walked into the shower...she looked up at his tall muscular frame...The hot , soapy water splashed on his frame....He cupped her breasts in his hands...workman's hands...Hands that put in a hard days work...She looked down at his fully engorged penis...She smiled...She shook her head...He leaned down and kissed her...She kissed him...She massaged his penis....He moaned....Then smiled that toothy grin of his that turned her on so much....

''Oh Mabel..." he moaned...

"Ohhhh Clerowww..." she moaned....

Wait! CLEROW???? She thought!!!   This must be a dream.....

It was...She woke up with a start and looked around....Her fiance, Kerry "88" Moore was sleeping peacefully beside her..snoring...He leaned over and put his arms around her, still asleep...It was all a dream she reasoned and drifted back into a peaceful sleep herself!