She seduces me. She provides me with mornings full of tight lines that I feel spoiled in an ebullient euphoria. Then the next morning she gives me a swift kick in the globules. She is a cruel mistress of a river. She takes me away from my family for a morning that turns into a whole day. She takes away from my work in the form of day reveries. I see her in the spring when she puts on that unsullied green lingerie that makes my mouth water. In the winter I am still drawn to her, even when my guides freeze she keeps my heart in a zealous state. At the end of the day I am always leaving her, she never leaves me. I hate her. I love her. I hate that I love her. She is a limestone courtesan that exasperates me beyond conviction and just when I say I am going to give her up, the line goes tight. I am reminded that she maintains my very being. She knows this too. She knows that I will be back to wet a line in shallows in bids to reap what she holds. I know that I am not the only man in her life, and more or less I am pathetically okay with this. More often than not she leaves me empty handed, but somehow I am always left with a smile. She takes my flies and eats my leader, but I forgive her for who she is and what she does. I am always magnanimous toward her at the end of the day. She is a pristine paramour. Through time she teaches me things I thought never existed. Mostly she teaches me things about myself. Someday, I will move on from her picturesque shrouding grip. But beyond every mountain and hill there is a mistress. I will find another to fill the obligatory void in my heart. Every turn of God’s green earth they will be running their free-stone commerce. And there you will find me paying homage.
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