JUNGLE OF THE FEVER

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Stranger: hey

You: fuck it's saturday

You: you know what I'm saying?

You: I'm ready to party

Stranger: i hear ya

Stranger: me too but i cant find one

You: I did a pushup contest today

You: came in third

Stranger: sexxyyy

You: $45 entry fee

Stranger: damnnnn

You: taxes included

You: I'm really good at push-ups though, seriously,

Stranger: thats good

You: do you want me to do some right now?

You: hold on, putting the computer down

You: here I go

Stranger: do you have a webcam

You: yes

Stranger: cool so do i

You: how old are you?

Stranger: 17

You: cool

Stranger: and my friend is 18

You: I'm 47, just had a messy divorce.

Stranger: im sorry my parents just divorced

You: it's rough, I feel for you

You: but life goes on, you know?

Stranger: yupp its gotta

You: and hopefully it's for the better

Stranger: yeah

You: is everything amicable?

You: I'm pretty good at karate.

Stranger: thats good im not that

Stranger: im not that good i mean

You: I gotcha.

You: are you going to go to college?

Stranger: yupp

You: cool, good for you.

You: I was in the viet nam war

Stranger: cool

You: I've seen horrible things in my day. Horrible things. Don't get me started.

Stranger: my uncle was in desert storm

You: does he know karate?

Stranger: yea

You: did your uncle see horrible things?

Stranger: yea but he doesnt talk about it

You: me neither really.

Stranger: yea i can understand

You: but I once had to blow up an orphanage

Stranger: aww

You: it was a horrible time in my life.

You: in Saigon.

You: just doing what Uncle Sam told me to, you know?

You: blew up the whole god-damned orphanage.

You: 36 kids.

You: blown to pieces.

You: it was so horrible

Stranger: sounds like it

You: still haunts me to this day.

You: ...seems like the only way a man can feel at peace these days is by chattin' it up with a cyber-stranger, you know?

Stranger: mhm

You: little kid body parts raining down on me and the boys. So fucked up.

You: Uncle Sam gives you a lot of things when you go into combat, but he sure as hell don't give you goddamned kid-proof umbrellas, you know what I'm saying??

Stranger: yea

You: don't get into the military, serious.

You: what are you going to study in college?

Stranger: i want to be author

Stranger: so engilsh lit.

You: don't study American History, unless you want to know about all the awful things me and my boys had to go through

You: shit, I couldn't even talk to my wife about it, guess that might've had something to do with the divorce

You: but somehow, for some reason, god knows why, I feel comfortable talking with you.

Stranger: thanks its always good to talk to somebody

You: maybe you could write my life story and become a famous author.

Stranger: maybe

You: I can use more flourishing words to dress it up if it would sound better on the printed page that way.

Stranger: yeah

You: but the orphan kid parts, man. There was no way to tell which parts went with which. That's messy, but what do you expect with 500 lbs of C4.

You: we shoveled 'em into the feed troughs 30 clicks away in a pig pen.

You: a big pig pen.

You: Those hogs took to 'em like white on rice.

You: gobbled up ever single last one of those kid parts.

You: Are you writing this down?

Stranger: yea

You: cool,

You: I think I have some good names for the book.

You: "FEVER of the JUNGLE"

You: what do you think?

Stranger: thats a really good name

You: cool, so we have my blown up orphan story, that's a good one and should take up a lot of pages.

Stranger: true

You: I have a pretty horrible one about a rice paddy gangbang.

Stranger: ok

You: one where me and the boys, we put a brick of C4 in the rectum of a water buffalo.

You: you want to talk about crazy?

You: That shit is crazy.

Stranger: sounds like it

You: I have one about eating a snake...while it was still alive.

Stranger: ok

You: thanks for listening

You: this is too heavy for me right now

Stranger: its ok

You: god bless you

You: semper fi

Stranger: god bless

You: thank you

Stranger: no problem

You: it's been great

Stranger: yes it has

You: it really really has

You: it means a lot to me, you listening. you've purged some of my demons tonight.

Stranger: its no problem really

You: i'm going to drink to my fallen brothers. and to those poor orphans.

Stranger: ok

You: thanks

You: i've never opened up like this to ANYONE before

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You was played by David