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Bluffing

& Under-performing

By Lightning Bolt ⚡Published 6 months ago Updated 5 months ago 2 min read
I felt all their eyes on me, the moment I entered the bar.

"Can I buy you a drink?"

🍺

💭 ... if I promise not to tell you what I think... 💭

🍻

💭 ... ... ... 💭

💭 You're out of my league.

"I could be everything you need."

💭 I open with my usual attempt to persuade:

"You should drink hard liquor & get laid."

😉

💭 Everybody is turned on by confidence

"You know I'm so fly!"

💭 Saying that always feels so arrogant

Thank God I'm so high! ⚡😎👍

"I'm a true bad ass!"

💭 And if you believe that, you're a total dumb ass!

"I'm not too old for you!

"Daddy was sent here to serve!"

💭 I'm totally too old for you

with baggage and issues and bullshit you do not deserve.

"So...

"Yo!

"Let's go,"

💭 Ho 💭

"Youth before beauty!

"Don't worry, I'll follow!"

💭 Your ass is a cutie.

I wonder: do you swallow?

❗👀❗

"Sure, I've been to plenty of cribs like yours."

💭 Never⚡ in my all wildest imaginings⚡have I've ever seen any place like yours❗

💭 What the holy fuck is that thing used for?!?❗🫣❓

"Absolutely, I know what that is used for!"

💭 ... ... ... 💭

😱

"Of course, I can do this."

💭 I don't know if I can do this!

" 'Where will this lead?' 🤷

"I'm clueless."

"But no doubt: we'll feel more alive,"

💭 if we survive.

⚡ ⚡

"We can take it slow

"and let it grow."

💭 Let's go really fast!

This probably won't last!!!

"We should keep our heads.

"We don't need to jump straight into bed."

💭 Let's get drunk and mindlessly fuck and suck and fuck and fuck and fuck,

then take a break for snacks

🍓🍇🍫 🧁 🥯

🌮🌮🍷🍾 🍩🥨

🍅🍅 🌶🥜 🍑 🍆 🍌 🌭

🥠 🍹🍸

🍒

and then get drunker and smoke weed

and sucksucksucksuckSUCK!!!

and fuckfuckfuckFUCKFUCK and

💭 F U C K❗💭 !!! 💭

......

and fuck a couple more times for good luck

...... 💭

⚡ 🛏 ⚡

"I can go all night! Call me 'Mister Steady!'"

💭 Shit!

I'm going to cum already!

🫤

"I'll get over it; it's fine;

"I actually feel blessed."

💭 You just exhibited every known sign

of not being impressed.

<sigh>

"Doesn't surprise me."

💭 The final question always is the same: 💭

Will you ultimately despise me?

Do you think I'm lame?

💭 Your eyes are like knives!

Baby, retract those claws!

I don't have hives -- {currently}

Breathe! Take a pause!

"Look, I'm serious!"

💭 You're looking at me like I did something hilarious.

"We could always try this again."

😐 💭 Hello, Laughter, my old friend.

~by

________________Bolt

I tried two different tones for the Things You Can't Say Out Loud challenge.

Humor 😂☝ & Heartbreak 😢👇

FilthyFor FunhumorProse

About the Creator

Lightning Bolt ⚡

Bolt aka Bill, a bizarre bisexual bipolar epileptic⚡🧠 Taco Bell Futurist 🌮🔔

Top 📚s inHumor = Memes & LSD & Hell🔥Creepy Crazy Fiction⚡🩸Thrash!!🩸🔪

Poetry ~ Challenge ~ Winners!

Demons & Phobias & Prophets, oh my!

WiERd but not from Oz. 🤷

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  • Caitlin Charlton6 months ago

    I am actually glad that I read the heartbreak before the humour. It helped to balance me out. This was lovely, a clear song in its unique rhythm. The perfect interruptive inner thought really gave this its own charm. The story being played out, we all know it too well. Something that was fun but still won’t last. A go with the flow until it ends kind of thing. Well done, this was nice to read and I love the chuckle it got out of me. ♥️🤗👏🏽

  • Liz Burton6 months ago

    This made me laugh out loud… I wonder do you swallow! 🤣

  • Sid Aaron Hirji6 months ago

    aww I love your stories. You have a romantic heart

  • Mark Graham6 months ago

    Did things work out? Quite erotic.

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  • Hahahahhahahaha this was hilarious!

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