Headed out for day 2 Expo at 10 – arrived by 10:45 – no major lines up to deal with today – other than folks blocking the aisles to take cosplay pics – seeing so many do that I resisted taking those pics – there’ll be enough of them – I remember my first Expo about four years ago – my niece & friend were coming from the east coast – wanted to stay with me – which was fine – I’d never been to Expo & by the time I knew about it all the super deluxe tickets were gone – I ended with the ordinary 3 day pass – I did take loads of pics that year –
Since then I’ve gotten the deluxe (tax deduction for me) – this is the first year that my niece hasn’t come up but I’m hooked. Some years I take in some of the Q&A – but I find three hours at Expo any one day more than enough – I was happy when they extended it to four days so I could do my two days without having to deal with those weekend crowds – getting around the place is hard enough without adding endless baby carriages & hand-held toddlers to the mix –
Day One I scope out things & buy some stuff – day 2 I walk all the rows, pick up tee-shirts – seemed to be more sculpture & action figure booths this year – always love to see those fanboys cross-legged on the floor flipping through boxes of comics with a want-lists on hand.
I did my own fanboy squee for Dan Parent – a current Archie Comics artist – he did my portrait last year & I had another done this year – I became fan because of work he’s produced for gay characters & getting them married – issues banned in some parts of the USA – what I really liked is that he made them male (female is safer as hetero male readers find girl-on-girl erotic) & one of them is black – sweet.
Did my three hours of walking, sitting, almost got a pic of Superman taking a leak in the washroom but wasn’t ready to be that bold.
Totally digging Lizzie Violet’s Best New Werewolf Tales – a great range of styles – legendary, old world, future world, zombies, erotica and comic – about 3/4 through now but so far all heterosexual – figures as everyone know how much gay men hate body hair 🙂
another hint of my Go Bump set:
*A Bite*
one morning there was a bite
an arc on my forearm
almost on my elbow
clear distinct human
top row bottom row
teeth marks
skin not broken
bruised red ridges indents
now where I could have done it
it wasn’t there when I went to bed
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there was another bite
on my left heel
it was tender to the touch
another spot my mouth could never reach
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then a final bite mark
on my inner thigh
I could still feel a mouth there
a tongue warm and wet
as teeth sank in
as if someone had
tried to devour me in my sleep
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all day I found myself
rolling up my sleeve
just far enough to see the first mark
it hadn’t faded into a pink rose
it was still there
an red angry smear
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when I got home
the others were also there
as if something had a hold of me all day
I checked the mirror carefully
had I missed one
did they make a pattern
they didn’t glow in the dark
they didn’t throb
there was no pain
only the sensation of my hand
when I touched them
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weeks later
years later
they are still there
and despite them
there is never less of me
TOpoet 
