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Symposim 29 Hotel. Fire of Life  

wickedeasy 74F
11203 posts
4/1/2017 1:59 pm
Symposim 29 Hotel. Fire of Life



There’ was a hotel just a few miles across the border, a place that women came. It was dirty, mean, smelled of blood, urine. The women who visited were dressed well. Usually they came alone. Sometimes accompanied by a man. They would drive up in taxis, step out, look around as if they must be mistaken, checking the paper in their hand. Some got back into the cars. Most didn’t.

The traffic in and out of the hotel was slow but steady. Few decided to stay the night. There is no pool, no restaurant, no concierge. Look, it is barely standing. Indeed, there is nothing in the village that speaks of comfort. A bar, a bodega, a scattering of houses in varying states of decay.

Ah, but wait, at the far end, set back from everything else, a grand hacienda, a Granja, with horses roaming a meadow. Many times the taxis drive first to this place, only to be redirected.

The women who visit the hotel, they need the arm of someone to help them back into the taxi as they leave. If they come with someone, they may leave supported but en lagrimas.

No one says anything to the women. Unacknowledged, they do not exist. Shadows.

The fires on Friday empty the tiny village. They are never lit until the sun is down, until the hotel closes. The villagers drift out, finding a place to sit upwind together, sharing food, singing, chanting until the smoke is a memory and the skies run clear. The , freed during the fire, wave bright trailing ribbons in long circles over their heads. The horses in the meadow raise their heads, scenting the smoke.

It is difficult, no? To cull the sacred from the profane.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.


wickedeasy 74F
32404 posts
4/1/2017 2:01 pm

once gain - someone must save me and post this to the symposium - I tried but pfft.

I also tried three time before the pic took. mofo

needless to say........I quit

You cannot conceive the many without the one.


tickles4us 62M
7262 posts
4/1/2017 2:24 pm

At the rate things are going there may be even more of these kind of places.

Vive La Difference


wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:20 pm:
sadly, this may be true. planed parenthood provides about half of the abortions nationwide in the US. the number of abortions having dropped steadily from 1990 to the present day (about 50.

sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
4/1/2017 2:55 pm

It sure does look like a hotel just over the border into Mexico. A very interesting story hugs V

Become a blog watcher sweet_vm


wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:22 pm:
my first abortion was in Canada, it was still illegal in US and mexico was too far away. the site was a two room storefront. I nearly bled out on my trip home.

KItkat1415 61F  
20051 posts
4/1/2017 3:23 pm

En lagrimas...
there are few less futile feeling times than when a woman needs to visit one of these places in order to keep her sanity, and her choice over whether or not she breeds...

I am lucky that I am in the United States and have a choice... for now.
I am lucky to be in a state where we talk about choice and the majority of us still believe in that choice.

Thank you for your symposium offering.
I am no longer participating in it.
kk

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wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:23 pm:
I didn't have a choice my first time. I did later.

why are you not participating?

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/2/2017 4:19 am

The last hotel I stayed in had lots of women coming and going. From my balcony it made for initially entertaining but then distressing viewing as it was obvious the Gambian women were earning a little money for lots of sex.


wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:24 pm:
ah, another choice......or lack of one.

goodatpoetry2 74M
16552 posts
4/2/2017 4:55 am

Very well done! .

That's what it's like when the government ( or religion ) decides they know best.

Upwind from the fires... yes.


wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:27 pm:
I can imagine what it would feel like to know and not say. to be part of and not sanction.

the Granja becomes the devil's home. the hotel, merely a place a utter desperation

greekphilosopher 61M
4077 posts
4/2/2017 6:35 am

Minimum wording, maximum meaning, as expected from wicked. Fortunately or not, for everything that may be "not allowed", anywhere in the world, there is a black market for it. Obviously, having the choice, makes it legal and as such, at least, safe.


wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:29 pm:
women will always know where to go.

what makes it wrong is when it is done in places that are mean, dirty and degrading.

kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
4/3/2017 2:25 pm

This is heartbreaking, wicked. I've been to a couple of those places, and I never thought we'd be back in that situation again.

Become a member now and get a free tote bag.


wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:33 pm:
I know kzoo. but then who'd think we'd take meals away from our elders? shut down our national parks? turn clean water dirty? back out on treaties?

it's a helluva world we're living in friend.

christylovesfun 51F  
16880 posts
4/4/2017 12:12 pm

It is hard to be a woman.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies. For vilest things
Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish. ~~ from Antony & Cleopatra


wickedeasy replies on 4/4/2017 2:34 pm:
yes. but think of the alternative....snork

KItkat1415 61F  
20051 posts
4/5/2017 9:48 am

I'm not participating because A ) the topic didn't excite and B ) I'm in the midst of trying to get other things done to start working on my degree, again.
Honestly, I pared down my watch list, and am preparing for only being on the site about 3 X a week.
kk

The observant make the best lovers,
I may not do right, but I do write,
I have bliss, joy, and happiness in my life,
Kitkat
Come check out my blog
KItkat1415
check out this post by me
Adventures In Body Grooming
#39 April Topic Link: What Lies Beneath
If April Showers Oh Bloody Hell What Kind Of Weather Turns Me On Bloggers Symposium 40


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