A tale of love, strife, adventure & beer..My three girlfriend's and one wife..." part 3

( 3rd and final snippet from the book )

Bobby was an Amerikan and one of the three people I knew

that spoke english. He sold cheap earrings to cute girls on

Calle Pintores , in tie dye and patchouli was also with a girl

named Venus...

" You gotta learn the langauge. They'll eat your soul if you don't..."

said Bobby...

The two cops coulda fooled anyone in that weird little town.

To me they looked like your typical mid day drunks walking up

to us standing there... " su documentos por favor..."

They wanted to see my papers... which I didn't have...

See, it happens to everybody, some beautiful spanish girl

comes up to you one day and sez " so do you want to see Spain ? "

and the next thing you know , your being arrested and ....

The cops walked me to the commisaria slowly.

They were intrested in this Amerikan, living in the

house of the good Doctor, and was Amerika really that large...

" So, you are the husband of Venus...", the short cop asked...

Walking by that little bar, the cop, that's the tall one

he's a hankerin'..." beer ? ", he sez to us.

No handcuffs that time. We sat for an hour

talking about Spain, as opposed to Amerika...

It was the great satan in 96'

what must they think now...?

Venus shows at around 2:00 at the commisaria.

There's laughing and hugs all around.

I'm in a cage, doors unlocked.

I am told there will be an expulsion hearing in the morning

Venus told the fat cops with the white beard to

" treat him well...", they talked a minute more then

laughed, looking at me.

" te quiero mucho mi amor no te preoccupies "

The fat cop asked if I was hungry, then shared his dinner from home

with me. We watched the Simpson's then the news

and like Ottis, I walked back to my cell and closed the door.

Tommorow would be a freak show...cop, lawyers, inturptures...

100 day's in Spain, I had already summed the place up

" Mayberry "

be well todo mundo,

J.Level

©jpl2008

A tale of love, strife, adventure & beer..My three ex-girlfriend's and one wife..." #2

( snippet from the book # 2)

...Venus said she was going to the store at the bottom of the hill.

I did'nt see her again for a month. A long weird month.

" ...guess you lucked out brother..." said the Jerry " el Gillipollas ".

I lost Venus. She drove off with no fone number to the house.

No address.
No clue as to where she was...

The weird stress of losing a person. No, no break up. No harsh

fight, she simply did not know where she lived, in Seattle.

Never been there. At a total loss, I made a few calls to Spain,

I didn't speak spanish.... Luna, another gillipollas, speaks for me...
..." Yeah missing... Kidnapped ?, well I couldn't say that exactly...? "

3:00 am a month later fone rings...

" Jess ?... Dan here..., hey listen I have this strange

Spanish chick standing in front of me sez she knows you and is lost....
No, I don't think she's totally nut's,

but she's got these eye's...."

I get Venus on the fone, and am amazed by the story...

...Venus drives down the hill to the store and got to talking. Forgetting

which street to take leading back up to the house. She drove all night looking and crying.

Nothing. She sleeps in the car in downtown Seattle, and of course, she finds the cafe Zeitgeist.

One thing leads to another, Venus finds a gig house sitting for a famous artist

with a bonus, two big happy dogs... Yeah she was like that, taught me to be like that

"...there is no defeat when you sleep on clean sheets and have good coffee in the morning,

the rest, we find or no?... ".
Venus said that.

I had forgotten that as of late,
so I have.

We returned to the house on the lake
and stayed about a month.
Eating, painting, and preparing

me for España, and all that would occur
over the next ten years...
We get on the plane in a week.

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

Venus spoke...

Interesting this medium for bringin' them outta exile

Venus, she connects with this poor, but famous artist

not 24 hours after the publishing of the snippet from the book.

We spoke for hours, and that Skype thing,

man if you don't have it 

you should. 

Venus, has aged gracefully.

Still beautiful,

like her mother

her grandmother

Venus was shocked at the short hair.

" Did you lose your mind ? " she asked.

" Yes, yes I did. " I said.

Permissions given to tell the story, 

as long as I don't tell the one about 

Malaga, the balcony, and the three cans 

of fruit cocktail....

She has a new dog,  

a 1965 Ford Mustang

and lives in New York,

which didn't suprise me a bit.

New York sorta Venus...

... for not teaching me spanish, and for f#%ing

 up my papers, and those scenes in Lisboa, 

Madrid

Granada

Navalmoral de la Mata ( my fault )

Huelva  ( Thanks. I forgot about that...)

Cadiz...

...you are forgiven. 

Made for good material.

She asked that I forgive more...

I told her that

I was working on it.

I am happy for your continued existence Venus.

You are an extraordinary human being.

I had not forgotten,

so I hadn't.

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

...A tale of love, strife, adventure & beer..My three ex-girlfriend's and one wife..."

( a snippet from the book )

" Good God !!! woman speak english !!!

they are not going to let us cross this border...", I hiss

at my Venus " whom caused all this really ",

on a hot hot day in June 1996.

The Nogales DF border crossing

into Nogales, Arizona.

" ...If you don't answer my questions 

I'm going to have to impound the car..."

said the patient, patient border cop, 

an Amerikan.

" Impound the car eh ?. Fine, 

but you gotta take the girl too...", I countered.

He looked at me for a minute,

then to Venus, 

whom had the eyes goin', 

staring  into his soul...

He weighed his options.

" Have a nice day ". Period.

He saluted and walked away...

Driving north towards Prescott, AZ...

" ..I'm gonna write this all down

and put it in my book you know...?"

I said.

" Lo se...", purred Venus.

That was the beginning.

It got much weirder... 

...to be continued 

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

foto: NYtimes

©jpl2009 " ...a tale of love, strife, & beer...my three x-girlfriends and one wife "

Venus passed in front of the house...

Are we blessed, or no?.

Yes. 

Yes we are.

Be uber well todo mundo,

J.Level