Trucker Feet

Miles Palmer Rompenhauer loves feet! When he stumbles across a studly trucker in a diner, he never thought it’d turn into a foot-focused alpha-male explosion that just might be too much for him to bear!

Can he handle his newfound redneck friend’s grimy, filthy, nasty feet?!

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Palmer Rompenhauer smiled at the waitress, Polly, who smiled back at him. She placed the plate of scrambled eggs and bacon in front of him.
“So, Polly, how’s that boyfriend of yours?”
“Oh, he’s darling, sugah. He got a new full-time job, starts next week.”
“Really?! Oh that’s wonderful,” Palmer said even though he didn’t believe it. He was actually annoyed. He had rather hoped Polly’s boyfriend would still be underemployed. He felt bad thinking that. It wasn’t really true, he wished Polly and her man the best of luck, even if that stymied his mission here today. It was just disappointing for it happen right when Palmer had a plan to get what he wanted.
He had come here to the truck stop diner because the world’s most arousing short order cook worked here. He was a big black daddy-type with a marvelous mustache and big stinky feet that Polly had complained about on several occasions.
Palmer liked that. He liked dirty men — and their feet — and Polly had said her boyfriend was dirty to the max. She’d shown him a photo, and Palmer had seen pictures of him on Facebook. Those feet looked so good he could almost taste them through the screen. The funk, the filth, the aroma… It was enough to make Palmer’s dick hard. It didn’t make his dick hard, because he was saving himself — saving himself, he thought, for Polly’s boyfriend.
But now if he got a full-time job. That made it unlikely he would swing on the downlow for a couple dollars.
He had hoped that Polly’s boyfriend would still be stuck in a part-time cook job because then Palmer could pay him to worship his feet. She told Palmer about the full-time job — which sounded like a great opportunity that paid well — and then scurried off to attend to a table of rowdy truckers who needed the check.
That was when the door to the diner opened.
Another, less rowdy trucker walked in, burly and thick, fuzzy hair protruding from the fire-department tee shirt he wore, against which his fleshy arms bulged. He had on camo pants that Palmer could tell from looking at them had been worn so much they were stiff and funky. They were the kind of pants only worn by the kind of man who rarely washes his pants. Truckers often don’t wash their clothes because they are always on the road.
And oh god those feet. The glory of his feet! Palmer couldn’t even see them yet, and already he craved the taste.
The trucker wore heavy hiking boots, jet black and burnished, dull, flecked with muds and pale dots that were seemingly bleach stains. They were going to smell remarkable too. Palmer sniffed the air in hopes that he would catch a whiff of the shoes or the feet encased within them, and maybe he did, or maybe he was imagining it, or maybe it was the feet of one of the other truckers in the diner.
Or maybe it was Polly’s feet. Palmer didn’t like to think about that possibility though. He wasn’t into women’s feet, and women’s feet should be graceful and beautiful. They should smell like tropical fruits and sunshine. Men’s feet should be gnarled and hairy, sweat-soaked, gristly like a cheap steak. That’s what Palmer craved.
The trucker had a tired look on his face, and he stood there at the counter as he scrutinized the menu — that was a sure giveaway of a real trucker who was on a long haul: he didn’t want to spend more time seated right now. He massaged his sore legs as he stood there. He stretched each thigh, and he stood on his toes to stretch his calf muscles.
The trucker leaned over the counter, stretching his thunderous muscles and lifting each leg up one after the other. He glanced at the menu for only a few seconds before ordering something from Polly.
“Sure thing, sugah!” Polly said. Then she nodded at Palmer. “Need anything, Miles?”
“No thanks,” Palmer said. She called him Miles, cuz it was his first name. But most people called him Palmer. Polly was already off to the back of the diner to put in the trucker’s order.
Palmer wondered how he could land a taste of this trucker’s funk. He came across as so filthy that Palmer could already imagine his taste and the flavor and texture of his grime. Every man’s grime is unique, Palmer always said, and he wished to sample them all.
There was dirt in the trucker’s greasy hair, plus a few smudges on his cheek — it looked like he had rolled around in the mud and then showered only very briefly, so there were still clumps of soil attached to him and clinging to his hair. Older dirt stains had been rubbed into the clothes he wore, and his hair was slick and unwashed.
A lot of the truckers were filthy, but not all of them could pull it off. Palmer salivated as he finally caught a whiff of the trucker’s funk — the trucker raised his arm briefly, stretching his shoulders, which bared his armpit long enough for Miles to inhale deeply of the dizzying scent. It was warm and musty, like a cozy library and a campfire had a baby, and Miles wanted to suck up every drop of moisture of the man’s powerful frame.
He was tall and broad-shouldered too. A lot of truckers were pretty fat. He wasn’t big on skinny guys, and Palmer didn’t mind a little heft. That was why he had come here lusting after the cook — a former bodybuilder with biceps to die for — instead of any of the truckers.
But now, he thought, he had an option. This trucker wasn’t fat at all. He was deliciously chunky, and though he didn’t have that cook’s amateur bodybuilder look, he was still appealing. He looked like he might have played football in high school and probably still did it enough with his buddies to stay in shape.
He was built like a truck, with a face that was kind of squashed like he had been hit by a truck and a dull, metallic tone to his voice like a truck Transformer. He had probably been driving a pickup truck since before he could legally get a license.
Palmer had no idea if all those suppositions were true, but it felt right, and he was ready to find out. He left Polly a nice tip, then headed to the counter where that sexy trucker still leaned.
He had ordered oatmeal. Palmer wasn’t sure he had ever seen anyone order oatmeal in a restaurant — he didn’t get it: Why order something you could cook in a microwave in a minute, for a cost of like fifty cents? But still, it was adorable. That trucker shoveled it in his mouth like he was a starving child. His unkempt beard hairs moved up and down, capturing some oatmeal-bits that escaped his lips.
Palmer smiled, heart thumping. “Manky?”
The man looked at him and furrowed his brow. “What? Who are you?”
“My name’s Palmer. Are you the football player they called Manky?”
“Yeah” Manky was obviously proud of being recognized. He blushed. “Cool, uh… Cool.” Then his eyes opened wide. “Oh! You’re the dude I was looking for!”
“What?”
“I was told I should find you, man. You got something I want.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.” Manky wolfed down the last of his oatmeal and left some money on the counter. “You got Asian chicks?”
“Asian chicks?” Palmer followed Manky out of the diner and towards the rows of trucks in one side of the parking lot. The roar of the engines was loud here, and Manky had to raise his voice to be heard. But Palmer still didn’t quite catch what he said.
“Tits and that… All over… I’ve got… How do you…?… The back… I’ll do…”
“Oh, uh…”
Manky opened the cab of his truck and climbed in. The little sleeping area behind that looked cozy, with warm blankets and pillow all over, like a tiny opium den. It smelled of alcohol and cheap weed and sweat and Palmer wanted to go in there and cuddle up with Manky.
But Manky waited like he was expecting someone else to join them. Palmer stood at the door, while Manky looked at him expectantly. In the door of the truck, the sound of the idling engines was not as loud, and Palmer could hear Manky more clearly.
“Uh… Where she at?”
“I’m sorry?”
“The Asian chick?”
“What Asian chick?”
“I dunno man, ain’t you got her?”
Palmer shook his head. “I don’t have any Asian chicks.”
“Oh… Well, fine, I guess it doesn’t matter. You got blondes?”
“I think… there’s been a misunderstanding. I don’t have chicks. I’m just… a dude, I don’t have a flotilla of chicks following me around.”
“Oh… You’re not… the guy?”
“I guess not. I am a guy.”
“You’re not a pimp. You know a pimp?”
“A pimp? No.” Palmer shrugged. “Oh, wait, yeah! You mean Slipper? I know Slipper. He ain’t here, he got arrested last week. His girls are all on Craigslist now.” Palmer wished he hadn’t said that because Manky took his phone out and pulled up Craigslist. “Damn it…”
“So wait, if you ain’t think I was buyin’ a ho, why’d you follow me to my truck?” Manky asked. He didn’t look up from his phone until Palmer answered.
“I was hoping to pay you for something…” Palmer said coyly. “I’ll give you five hundred dollars to ram me. There’s a catch though. I-“
“Wait, what?”
“I’ll give you five hundred dollars to cornhole me. You gotta let me jerk you off. You gotta ram me in the ass. And you gotta let me worship your feet.”
There was a long pause. “What…? You mean me?”
“You.”
“Feet?” He lifted his heavy-booted feet up and wiggled it in front of Palmer.
“Feet.”
Manky blushed, the color mostly concealed by his scruffy beard hairs. “I, uh… I guess… Yeah.” He paused. “You ain’t gonna tell no one, is ya?”
“It’s our secret.”
Manky hesitated again. “So… like… you ain’t gotta be real detailed, but uh… do you like… want me to shower first? Or is it like… you-“
“I like it funky. Please do not shower first,” Palmer said.
Manky blanched and laughed to cover up his obvious discomfort. He let Palmer into the cab, and they climbed into the sleeper. It was basically just a bed with a few shelves on the walls for personal belongings, plus a TV mounted above the bed, though it didn’t appear to be hooked up to anything at the moment.
Manky laid himself out on the bed. He was trying to look casual. He didn’t want Palmer to think he was desperate or frightened, after all.
A lot of truckers spoke of messing around with males on the road. It was common. A lot of truck stops had male “lot lizards” — addicts would do any guy for a place to sleep and a hot meal. Manky wasn’t into that. He could often land a free woman, or failing that, a prostitute — his trucking route kept him on main routes where there were usually prostitutes available.
So he had never partaken. Older guys would do whatever it took to get their rocks off on the road. They said things like “it’s all pink in the dark” and “a hole’s a hole” and “it don’t count if you’s on the road”.
Manky didn’t say things like that. He was not part of that older generation.
“So, uh… what do you… do?” Manky asked, his voice trailing off because Palmer was already getting started. He hadn’t been immediately aware of that because he didn’t feel Palmer’s fingers on his boots, and Manky never really looked at his feet for that kind of thing.
But Palmer had already bent over and kissed the bleachy leather of Manky’s heavy black boots. They stank of cleaning solvents and mud and sweat, that last of which smelled so intense that Palmer let out a long, cringing moan.
“Damn…” Manky frowned like he was surprised to see this really happening. He found an old DVD player on a shelf — it wasn’t kept hooked up to the TV because Manky didn’t have a long enough cord. He had to rest the DVD player on the bedspread in order to plug it into the TV. He tried to ignore Palmer slathering his boot with kisses as he put in an Asian-chick porn. It wasn’t actually his favorite video, but this situation was already awkward enough that Manky didn’t want any penises on his screen.
That black boot was cold and salty. Palmer untied it as he licked it from tip to heel. The leather was old and worn, but it was real leather, not plastic, so that just made it better. Palmer could see the time-worn creases where the material bent frequently, right over the toes mainly, but also up by the ankle, on the side.
When he slipped it off, he struggled a bit, it was a tight fit and a heavy boot. It finally popped off and there was an audible, almost visible wave of footy funk that wafted into Palmer’s face.
“Aaaaaaaaaaah….” Palmer let out a long moan that overpowered the sound of the Asian women eating each other out onscreen. He could taste the foot aroma that came in waves over his face. He chomped at the air to eat it — that made him giggle, especially the way Manky scrupulously faced away and ignored him.
Palmer untied his second boot too and pulled it off, again sniffing loudly and savoring the astringent scent of his unwashed foot. It filled the air of the truck’s living quarters. Palmer wallowed in it, rubbing his nose through the dense fabric of both socks.
Manky’s dick twitched. He didn’t know why, and he didn’t show it because it was embarrassing — he told himself it was because of the porn. But a part of him worried that he was beginning to enjoy this foot-worship.
It was weird, he thought as Palmer pulled his dirty socks off, baring his big, meaty feet with a few highly visible hairs on the top. It was making his dick semi-hard anyway. Manky’s girlfriends often complained about his “hairy feet”, which he thought was unfair — they really weren’t hairy. There was a tuft of hair right on the bony part on the top of each foot, but it was maybe twenty hairs total. They were highly visible because they were jet-black and coarsely-textured.
His feet always smelled bad too. More than one girlfriend had said she wouldn’t have sex with him if he took his shoes off. He’d seen a doctor at one point, but the cream he was given didn’t do anything. Manky just avoided taking his shoes off as much as he could, and he wore these heavy boots all the time because they were basically airtight — he didn’t realize that tight boots meant the inside was warm and slightly moist, the perfect environment to make his feet smell even worse.
Or, from Palmer’s perspective, better.
He sucked the funk off those hairs and moaned at the sour, salty taste. His hands roamed up Palmer’s calves, and he massaged his leg through those camo pants. Manky took off his shirt unprompted, then gulped and pulled his pants off when Palmer asked him to.
Just think of the money, Manky reminded himself. It was weird to feel Palmer’s tongue on his feet. It was like getting a bath from a cat, he thought. It was off-putting but not exactly unpleasant. He just wished Palmer had wanted nothing more than to jerk him off — that would have been easier to endure. Just a handjob. No big deal.
Manky’s foot was ungodly funky. Palmer loved it. It was like mainlining sweat. He could taste every inch of Manky’s body, like the sweat he sucked down had collected all the flavors of his hairy redneck frame as it trickled to his feet.
Palmer’s hand gripped Manky’s cock, without removing his tongue from the bottom of Manky’s left foot. Manky’s whole body shook and his eyes opened wide, but he forced himself to remain focused on the porno. His dick had been on the verge of full erection for so long, twitching and throbbing in his dirty boxers, that he was virtually ready to explode as soon as Palmer finally touched it.
“Oh goddamn…” Manky’s deep voice echoed in the tiny living area. He stretched his legs, but he was too tall, so his feet bumped into the metal side. Pleasure spasmed through his body, and he held his breath through clenched teeth.
“Hmmm… You taste so good…” Palmer sucked down every drop of funk before letting his tongue run a trail up Manky’s hairy legs.
Manky was already on the verge of blowing his load. The delay had made him so horny he could burst.
His cock tasted like his foot, but a little cleaner. Palmer giggled at the taste and the sight of Manky’s ruddy face looking down at him — finally Manky was willing to tear his eyes away from the women onscreen.
“Shit, man, goddamn!” Manky shouted. He grabbed ahold of Palmer’s head and guided it down deep on his dick, until Palmer’s nose nuzzled his unkempt pubic hair. Palmer loved that — so many young men these days shaved their crotches, which Palmer found unappealing — he liked that big hairy bush and the stale scent it always had. Most men trimmed though because it made their dick look bigger since less of it was concealed by pubic hair. Manky had such a huge dick he didn’t need to worry about that.
His cock throbbed, precum flowing in Palmer’s throat. Manky would have been fine with cumming directly into Palmer’s throat, but Palmer had said he wanted anal.
The best thing about anal, from Palmer’s perspective, was that he could worship a man’s foot at the same time. If Palmer bent over, with his ass high and his face on the ground, a man could ram him in the ass with his feet near enough to Palmer’s face that he could step on his head if he wanted to — which Palmer would often beg his men to do.
That was difficult in this setting though. The tiny sleeper wasn’t big enough for Manky to stand up.
“Here, can you lean back right here? I’ll back up, see?” Palmer arranged Manky to sort of squat in one corner. It was awkward and ungainly and it stretched Manky’s legs — but that wasn’t a bad thing, he was always looking for opportunities to exercise his knees. It was only Manky’s calf muscles that kept him aloft.
Manky had only fucked one woman in the ass successfully — many backed out when they saw how big his dick was, but he had one girlfriend who loved it. So Manky was inexperienced with actually getting his cock into someone’s ass.
“Damn it, man, hold still,” Manky said. Palmer had trouble keeping himself in position because he was more interested in nuzzling Manky’s foot than in getting it up the ass. But he spread his cheeks and backed himself up to meet Manky’s cock.
A jolt of pain hit him, and Palmer lifted his head, just out of reach of Manky’s foot. As Manky drilled in, a little hesitant at first, Palmer lowered his head again despite the intense sensations coursing through his veins. There was an intense pressure in his ass, Manky’s entire girthy manhood stretching him to accommodate it.
At last, Manky was in him, and Palmer’s tongue was on the hairy top of Manky’s foot. It smelled more of spit than anything else now, but Palmer could still sense the podiatric funk emanating off it and enveloping his face in its goodness.
Manky had never felt anything like this. He whooped and hollered. His foot sent little shocks of pleasure up his body, which surprised him — he’d never been into his feet being worshiped before.
But he couldn’t deny that that tongue on his foot was somehow more pleasurable than any of the women he’d ever fucked. It wasn’t just the foot, but that definitely felt good — even more than that it was how Manky could simply ram as hard as he wanted. Palmer seemed willing to take anything, and indeed was more focused on Manky’s foot than the cock splitting his ass open.
Manky could use all of his power and his weight to piston his dick in and out, making the entire sleeper cab shake as he orgasmed deep in Palmer’s ass. Palmer clenched down on him, moaning into his feet, tongue lolling out over his toes.
Cum sprayed into Palmer’s ass, great gobs of creamy juices that had built up in his week or so on the road since he last blew his wad. Manky roared and pounded on his chest with one hand, while his other kneaded the flesh of Palmer’s asscheeks.
“Oh god!” Palmer moaned, his voice breaking. Waves of intense sensation wracked his body, and his hands tightened into claws that dug into the firm flesh of Manky’s body.
Manky just grunted, the sound loud and resonant in Palmer’s ear, a grunt that turned into an ear-aching moan.
Palmer squirmed as cum filled him up. He felt it seeping through his flesh and soaking into his body. Exquisite ecstasy coursing through his veins, Palmer shot his own load too, right into his hand. He hadn’t cum or even gotten a hardon since his setting out for the diner — hadn’t even thought about it — but now that he was with Knuckle, Palmer felt the stress melt away. A long chest-rattling moan chambered out of his chest, and still more and more jizz poured out of him. When he had finished, he let it slip out and onto the top of Manky’s foot. It plopped there hotly and Palmer’s tongue snaked out to slurp it all up. Manky watched with a shocked, disgusted look on his face, but this all felt too good to worry about a little cum on his bare foot.
“Well, shit, man,” Manky said with a chuckle. “You gonna pay me, right? Don’t stiff me.” He now thought he should have got the money upfront, but it was too late now. He was spent, breathless and sweaty, his chest hair matted to his skin.
“I won’t,” Palmer said. He curled up into Manky’s heavy arms. He sucked salty sweat off his bicep as he pulled out his wad of cash. It was all twenties and he knew exactly how much it was — five hundred dollars. But Palmer still made a big show of counting it anyway, because he liked being the center of Manky’s attention, and anyway, Manky expected him to count it. Palmer settled himself, ensconced in Manky’s sweaty arms, as he counted out the twenty dollar bills.
When he handed over the wad of dollars, Manky took the cash and grunted. Palmer picked up his limp dick and kissed the tip, then slurped off the fluids clinging to it. It was funky like Manky’s foot, but assy, moist and goopy. Palmer teased it with his tongue, making Manky throw his head back and moan.
“Shit, man… you wanna spend the night in my sleeper here wit’ me?” Manky said with an awkward grunt. It was hard enough to ask a girl out, he thought, asking a guy to spend the night in his sleeper was even harder.
But he was confident Palmer would say yes, and indeed Palmer giggled and nuzzled his chest even closer. His hand massaged Manky’s body.
“Thanks,” Palmer said. “I’m glad I ran into you. You have the greatest trucker funk I’ve ever tasted.” That was true, and Palmer was eager to spend the night here with him. The sleeper was rank with footiness and Palmer couldn’t wait to marinate in Manky’s body all night long.

The White Trash Veteran: Chapter 1

The White Trash Veteran

The cricks and thickety hollers of West Virginia smelled just like Goose Sampson recollected. While he was gone, he wouldn’ta, couldn’ta and repeatedly did not conjure up the aroma in his imagination. It was unlike any scent his nose done made acquaintanceship with in the jungles of Vietnam. T’was fresh like snow but musty like rain, both dirtsy and woodish, earthy like a campfire and airy like a whetstone, memorable as mama and homey as hugs. He appreciated the fougère of the terroire, though Goose remained polite-nod strangers with both them words.
Carrying a poke fulla dollars and a pocket fulla pantyhose, he hurried by shanks’ mare on through the Appalachian woodlands, darting from sods to bald and back. Sirens blared yonder. Goose stopped when he got to a babbling run and sent the pantyhose floating yanway.
He knewed the area round Martinsburg like the upper sidea his pecker, and he learnt plenty about sneak-a-sleeking through the wooly wilderness of Vietnam. T’wasn’t so different here. Scurrying like a stinky sally on over muddy drafts fulla ferns and towering trees past critters and bugs and varmints chirping and growling and hissing, and there he was, a hillbilly blundering again through laps and laurel hells.
Vietnam got more wetlands, that was the only difference. T’was enough though. Goose discottoned to wetlands.
And skeeters. Vietnam got a peck of skeeters.
Of nightfall, he made it back to Smashwood Trailer Park. He was outta wind, dirty like a cellar, armpits sweat-soaked, but he sauntered in, casual as a bowl of buttermilk. The park was working alive with folks and fellers who Goose knewed since he was a boy. Did them’all know he robbed a bank? They couldn’t know, and ain’t nobody took no note of him. He returned from Vietnam a couple weeks back, so nary the whombodies got whopper-jawed at him moseying home buttermilk-like. He had a poke, t’was all. Just a knapsack, like any feller might could tote.
Nobody knewed it was fulla red-hot greenbacks.
Nobody knewed Ellen been hooking it on the other side of town neither. Ellen was Goose’s wife. They ain’t never done live in matrimony, as they jumped the broom only days before Goose shipped out to the steamy greens. Ellen done come up in the family fashion, so they got married with a hurry and a hoop-dee-hoo. Now Goose returned to the joyness of meeting his newborned son Moses and to the sadness of Ellen admitting she been turning tricks to pay the bills. Army don’t pay diddly.
Goose did more shouting than he cared to admit, and he blistered and kicked up purple, raring and pitching, then he punched a hole in the wall and regretted letting his son see that and afrearing from it, and nothing Goose could do would make him stop crying. He said no wife of his gonna go and sell her God-given ladyness to any pecker-toter with dollars and a stiffy, cuz what was the point of being a man if you can’t keep your little lady from hooking it? But he done got drafted to the other side of the ever-blesséd world, so what was he sposedta do about it? Can’t do squat! Goose screamed like a river at a dam, til Ellen begged him to stop or the neighbors gonna call the sheriff, and Goose wanna ram his noggin into the wall until something somewhere broke.
The whatnots rising in him, Goose only regained hisself when he saw Vietnameys watching him like sentries from the woods behind the trailer. That turned out to be an illusion, but it got Goose calm as a clam, sending Ellen and Moses inside. Then he felt hisself a fool when he reckoned t’was just some shadowy tree swaying in the breeze, and he pretended ain’t nothing happen. He don’t want Ellen to think he couldn’t cope or Moses to think his pops was fearful.
So he steeled up for the woman and the boy. They got needs, and a rock don’t. He ain’t think twice about giving Ellen the cash-money from the robbery. “Don’t spend it all at oncet,” he said.
And he felt bad that he felt good about leaving. He gotsta skedaddle while the heat was on. And he gotsta go less he lose control of his fists again. That boy ain’t a wall, and the lady ain’t a soldier.
She nodded, and she whispered, “Thank you…”. She kissed Goose upon the cheek. That felt good. Damn good. Something about tenderness from a lady reassures a man he is alright and cures a touchous soul. Her lips wouldn’t tremble so soft-like if he was a monster. Ellen wouldn’t kiss a john the way she kissed Goose. He ain’t tell her not to whore it out no more cuz it was implied from the hole in the wall and cuz he ain’t want her to lie and say she would quit off when she really wouldn’t.
The only thing better than kissing Ellen was playing with his son — Moses, but Ellen said everwhom was calling him Buck, cuz he be climbing like a goat. Goose liked that, cuz he was called Buck as a tyke too, on account of his buck teeth. Ellen ain’t know that when she fell to calling Moses Buck.
Buck afreared Goose all afternoon. He ain’t never met the hairy stranger — Goose been letting his hair and his beard go wild now that he ain’t got a sergeant jawing at him about it — it was still coming in dry and coarse though, only gradually returning to health. When Goose smiled like a lamb and pooped down onto the floor of the trailer at Buck’s height to vroom-vroom with his toy truck, Buck giggled and played along. He clum on Goose’s back and rode him like a pony.
Playtime was interrupted when there came a knocky-knock upon the trailer door. It was Anita Daylily, a high-headed whomgoody with a puff of hair and her muff in a huff that some policeman was on the wander, asking if anybody in the trailer park seen Goose — course he asked after his real name, Martin Sampson.
Ain’t nobody in the park gonna make it easy on a policeman. Goose was from round here. Officer Whomsoever was not. Or maybe he was, Goose don’t know. Anyway, that was his cue to scram. Some snoop-nose peckerwood at the bank musta reckonized his voice.
“I gotta go, son,” Goose said. He got down upon his knee to give li’l Moses a big hug goodbye. “Moses…”
“Bye.” T’was all li’l Moses Buck said. He weren’t muchuva talker yet.
Goose kissed him goodbye, and he kissed Ellen goodbye too but in a different way, then he went on back to bush in the wilds up behind Smashwood. He ain’t wanna whisk off, but he ain’t wanna stay even harder. It was better this way, for him to be gone. He gotsta get a grip on hisself, and a man gotsta do that alone.
The world seemed right before the war, right in a way he couldn’t perceive then or articulate now. Expectations done broke, he thought. Goose went to war, he pulled the appropriate trigger at appropriate times, he followed orders mostly, he came back alive, he got money, he gave it to a woman to spend. He did his part. He completed the minimum requisited of a man. But it felt like he done jack up every single thing in the world. He was a retard in boot camp, he dropped his rifle, he got scared as a bunny, he was captured, needed rescue, he lost, he failed, he fell, he wailed. He could get done up by the Vietnameys prolly crawly-trawling the countryside anytime. He done develop a sixth sense about ’em, and it been twinging like a siren. Ain’t quit off since Muck Dan Foo. He don’t wanna go look in the woods lest he either get took captive again or see that he imagined phantoms.
He stayed on the hoof, alert but hazed. He gotsta hide til the cops stop looking for him, wander til the sun sets, lay awake til the dawn comes. One day at a time.
He left Smashwood Trailer Park, but in a way, it felt like he ain’t never return from the Army. He only ever left Smashwood once really. Wise honkies say home is the place where, when you show up, they have to take you in. But war is too. Dumb hillbilly says home is the place where, once you leave, you can never return. War is that too.
The road ran to the highway, and Goose stayed parallel to it so nary a cop or a Vietnamey could see him. They did that in Vietnam, staying parallel to rivers, not roads, but it was the same idea. A river was just the universe’s road. If the Army controlled a river, they’d travel on a riverboat afloat, but if the Vietnameys did, they’d walk parallel to the river, far enough away to be unseen from it.
He noodled on a destination, any one would do, so long as it was away from Ellen and the boy and the skeeters and slant-eyed jaspers of Vietnam. He armybooted through the woods till he wound up on the highway. Rambling along the roadside for a spell, he let his mind dangle like a rod. Plans formed like constellations, but Goose bit back the bubbles of his notions and pondered like a buddha.
The camp cook Sam learned him pondering, but moments jumbled and mixed like phuh. Goose put one foot in front of the other, like the first drop of water striking out a path to sea. T’was hard to build a river with cops and Vietcong and Ellen’s johns blocking the route.
He might as well hitch a ride, he thought, so he thumbed out. It was mostuva hour before a truck pulled over, a big rig hauling cabbages to Roanoke, Virginia. The truck cab smelled of raw cabbage and chewing tobacco.
T’was good enough for Goose, who said he wanna go to Roanoke too. The trucker got a calypso song playing on the eight-track, and Goose wondered why a white man got a feel for calypso, but Goose ain’t ask after it. Goose was in boot camp with a Trinidadian feller, who did flop his dingdong on the regular to calypso records. Goose got no quarrel with calypso.
The driver was Buford, a right-country sumbitch with a ruddynut face and a extra-ruddy mustache that drooped in two lines down to his chin. He got a big head of curly hair.
“You was in the Army?” Buford asked.
Goose dunno how that Buford could tell he was Army. Maybe he done seed Goose’s dog-tags or something. Maybe he just assumpted — Goose weren’t cowering in Canada, and he looked too dumb for the Air Force and too tough for the Navy. Goose said, “Yessuh.”
Buford nodded. “I’s a Navy man, mahself.”
“Oh, tha’ss nice, didya enjoy ya vacation durin’ the war?” Goose said with one whoop, two guffaws and a series of slaps upon his knee.
Buford laughed along with him, and them two swapped insults and war stories like ornery nurses. Turnt out they was both in the same engagement in Na Doong. They might well have done pop off at the same damn gook. Felt good to know it, it settled the cockles of Goose’s manhood. The war was only over a couple months ago, so it warmed his heart to speak of it like history.
But it lingered upon his mind like only the present could. The future stopped the moment he arrived in Vietnam, and Goose ain’t slow his uppermostness down, not then, not now. The past might could still pop outta the woods anytime. There oughta be a after-war boot camp, so somebody could demonstrate that there was a thing called Not-War and that he was in it.
“Hey, you got cash for gas?” Buford asked when they pulled over at a gas station.
“No, suh,” Goose said.
“You got grass?”
Goose shook his head.
“Hmmh… hmm.” Buford said. He got out to pay for the gas hisself.
But Goose reckonized what that murmur meant. A Navy man can’t help hisself. Buford hoped Goose to pay up in cash, grass or ass. That’s how hitchhiking works out in the country.
But Goose don’t give up his bootyhole if he can help it, so when Buford returned, Goose said, “I’ll get’cha started, Buford. But if’n you go’n make me give up the bootyhole, lemme off right now.”
Buford made a dismissive snort. “I ain’t a niggruh,” he said. “I don’t wan’cha rear.” He unzipped his jeans and pulled out a long fat cock. He gave it a couple strokes, then leaned back in the driver’s seat the best he could while still steering the truck onto the highway.
“Sheeit,” Goose said as he wrapped one hand around Buford’s meaty cock. “You Navy men is all the same.” Goose leaned over and put his mouth upon Buford’s knob. It twitched against Goose’s lips when Buford laughed.
“Army is jealous cuz a sailor’s dick do work,” Buford said. He put his left hand upon Goose’s head to push it deeper on his shaft, while his right hand stayed upon the steering wheel. “Ship got no place for a limp dick. Send ’em to the Army!” He cackled. “Or the Marines, I don’t vouch for them.”
Goose made some mouthy noises to communify that he disagreed with Buford’s as to regarding the Army, but he ain’t stop slurping and also don’t dispute the Marine Corps’s reputation. He don’t welch. Goose do what he gotsto. He done so numberous times before, and he likeish would again.
In any case, he know how to get a man going. He commenced to batter Buford’s knobtip with his tongue, and he slicked his lips up and down the shaft. Lotta fellers don’t realize jackin’ a man off with ya tongue is the same as doing it with ya hands — you don’t gotta taste it longer than it takes, just move ya lips up and down same as you would ya hand. If a man’s dick works, it’ll happen quick as candy.
Sure enough, Buford got to leaking prenut in no time. When Goose tasted it, he pulled off, but he kept stroking it with one hand. T’was called ‘starting it off’. Leastways that was what they called it in the Army. Navy prolly calls it ‘e’ry morn’ b’fore breakfast’! They do that, they do be like that. Never get put in the brig on a Navy base, or you gonna taste more meat than a vulture, Goose learnt that good. He learnt that like math.
Buford held onto his head, jabbing at his face and trying a-force Goose to put it back in his mouth. Goose did plant his tongue upon the tip a couple times to mollify Buford, but the taste of pre-jizz got him gagging, qualmish. Buford couldn’t tussle with his head too much while steering, ‘specially once he got close to busting a nut.
Stroking Buford’s dingus fast as a badger, Goose got both hands upon it. His left hand worked the shaft, and his right hand squeezed the base. Buford’s dick was big enough to accommodate both hands. The precum flowed like wine, lubing up Goose’s mitts.
“Ah, wait, wait, here I go, wait, shit…” Buford sucked in his breath. His cock went throbby-lobby like an alien beast, and Goose hurried his rhythm. Buford grunted like it hurt. “Wait, ah, shit, wait, got it, shit-” He cut his own self off with a hiss.
A fat spurt of jizz came outta his dick, jetting into the air and landing back in his hairy crotch. Goose ain’t stop stroking, even when his hand was coated in ackempucky. He kept working Buford’s meat up and down till his balls was good and drained. Cum got all the way up Goose’s arm to his bicep, but he ain’t miss a beat.
Buford’s dick roped limply in Goose’s left hand even before plopping out one final wad of fatness, but Goose leggo with his right hand. Buford was still making noises, whole body contorting, his veiny shaft still throbbing. Then at last Buford sighed and twitched, and a few final drops dribbled into Goose’s grip.
Goose leggo. He wiped up the gom with a napkin, while Buford tucked his man-meat away and redid his jeans with one hand. His other hand stayed on the wheel.
“A Navy man j’st can’t help hisself,” Goose said with a chuckle and a mournful whistle. “You know you ain’t gotta get a man to jerk ya meat? You can stick it in a woman.”
Buford laughed and countered that Goose’s face was ugly as pussy, which worked on two levels, then he turned up the volume on the eight-track. That calypso jangled out bright and clear. Goose liked that. T’was good music to whisk off unthoughted, its lively beat like a river’s current carrying Goose away to benighted shores, and the best part was that it don’t sound nothing like Vietnam.