Wednesday, 13 November 2013

pierre & guinevere

PIERRE AND GUINEVERE

A Tale Of Tail, In A Pseudo-Russian Folksy Style That May Lend Itself To A Movie Script, If Only I Could Write A Movie Script.  Its Complexity Of Names And Stations Boggled Me.  I Think, And Feel, It Could Be Finished With A More Dramatic Ending Than I Have Conceived, Thus Far.  Perhaps A Sequel, And/Or A Prequel, Would Be Warranted.  Perhaps I Need To Stage The Death Of One Or Other Of The Main Characters To Make The Ending More Dramatic, Eh?  Perhaps The Accidental Detonation Of A Russian Missile, Would Be Warranted.

By Izzy Ess Of Happiness

In Anivlostok, Russia, there did live Pierre and Guinevere, who had been quite inspired by Russian Revolutionary notions of Freedom and the Commune style of living, including Free Love and Co-operative Farming.  Guinevere was British and she’d met Pierre on a holiday vacation to Marseilles, last year.  They’d been in love with love and each other and had had a child together, La Petite Maria Pirouette, a flower child and free spirit of the new frontier.  Pierre had never had a job, as such, while he had worked his father’s vineyard in the south of France, between Marseilles and La Ville en Rose.  He had thus learned to gather grapes and make good wine from them which he had drunk and sold in local markets in the spring and summertime.  He met his Guinevere when she had stopped at his quaint modest booth A La Place du Market, in the older section of the old Marseilles.  She thought that he was tall and handsome and he thought that she was beautiful and statuesque.  They’d shared two bottles of his wine and his small bed in D’hôtel du Richelieu, in town, just after dancing in the streets, in a day in May, in 1919.  C’était romantique et la conception embryonique de La Petite Maria Pirouette.

The trio did arrive in Anivlostok, Russia, with an hundred other French enthusiastic Communists.  They were assigned to jobs immediately.  Guinevere was put to work as a tractor driver in a farm commune of many immigrants from North and South America, Africa, Central America, Europa, China and the Philippines.  Free love abounded and many embryonic communists were thus begun.  Guinevere took lots of young men on atop her tractor while it was humming.  Our Pierre was sent to central offices to type and organize the published pamphlets of the USSR huge regime and he did his share of free loving underneath his old oak desk in his old musty office with the office staff of pretty and the not so pretty newly organized young female communists.  He was later catalogued as having started more than hundred embryos that later were the younger sets of communists.  Everything was catalogued and recorded for posterity, including the great size of his proud manhood which had done a yeoman’s job for Communism.  He headed a small harem of the loving women with whom he worked and with whom he didn’t work.  He even serviced his own special Guinevere and was a possible real sire of her next child, a healthy bouncing boy which she delivered on her tractor, which she continued driving, and kept humming, every day.

Within the year, a youthful Commissar had organized a day care centre for all the children who would grow to be good communists.  He’s seen the statuesque and sexy Guinevere and had her transferred to his immense old office in the old Moskva suburb of new Trotskva.  He exercised his free love privileges underneath his own oaken desk, in his old office, each and every day.  He shooed away all competition by free lovers who would have liked a chance to have our Guinevere underneath a desk, or two, and protected his new offspring, too.  It was a healthy bouncing baby girl, named Olga Sophie Trotsky, in honour of a Russian charter member of The Party of new Communists.  Olga was a charter member of the Youth group which originated in old Trotskva.

In the meantime, our Pierre was being groomed for party leadership by a youthful Commissar who worked in his huge old office right in Moskva.  The youthful Commissar was a lovely woman who had spotted our Pierre in a convention setting that occurred just months ago when our Pierre and other workers were brought into Moskva for a grand parade of weapons and to get a hug from leading Communists for his productive work.  Sophia was the Commissar in charge of buying tractors and she had a big old office in the Moskva complex of the Kremlin.  She phenagled our Pierre’s new job just right beside herself, in the old office as her secretary.  Our Pierre was quick to learn some typing, bookkeeping and how to love his new boss, freely, in the comfort of her walk-in closet next to her huge walnut desk.  Despite the rules, Pierre and Sophia fell in love and were secretly just married after Sophia pre-arranged a secret old divorce betwixt Pierre and Guinevere.  Guinevere was happy with her station and was not informed of her fast-changing situation with regard to her Pierre.  Sophia pre-arranged her satellite new office in Saint Petersburg and pre-arranged a job for her Pierre beside her in a tiny bed and sitting room adjoining her new office.  Pierre and his Sophia were inseparable and they freely loved each other in the antique bed, that she’d appropriated, for the many months, for two whole years.  Sophia needed all that time to fudge divorce proceedings from her not so youthful husband, who had married her, when she was only fourteen years of age and pregnant due to dalliance with her childhood lover, Vlad.

So, everything was peachy keen for our Pierre and his new paramour, Sophia, while things were so exciting for his ex-wife, Guinevere, who was about to be promoted for the exalting, secret job of oft free-loving a new Commissar in Siberia, Fyodor Surawicz.

I beg forgiveness, my dear readers for this detailed, short account of what was happening to my two characters who met in Old Marseilles.  I am reminded that the two books that I put aside before completion in my life were Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Michener’s Poland because the unfamiliar Russian names just bogged me down.  The movie Doctor Zivago, made me realize that with the actions of the handsome actor and the gorgeous actress, names did not so bog me down.  So, perhaps I have to write a movie script to keep the interest in everybody sharply focussed.  Perhaps some one of you, dear readers is adept at writing movie scripts and can help me out.  I thank you, in advance, for considering this opportunity, with the proviso that my copyrights are honoured.  I do understand now why Omar Sharif just often stared for many minutes at the Russian winter wonderland, and then he died of some frustration, because he had to always keep in mind the myriad of Russian characters, which lived a very complicated life just getting through the days and names of characters of their own complicated lives.  Perhaps a break with my own cooking, a half a flavoured cigarillo, and my home-made Muscatel non-vintage wine, will help me to continue.  I’d like to get one or other couple in a troika in the snow, but that is not original.  If there is to be a movie made, I’d like to think my voice-over talents, would make a good narrator of the tale…

I got it, my dear readers!  I am outward bound to take a Welland public bus and visit my good friend this morning for an hour or two.  It will refresh me, so I’ll end this now so easily and return to it someday, when my mind is cleansed of complicated names and situations.

THE END

AMEN AND HALLELUJAH!

© Izzy Sommers, MD
Welland, Canada
November 13, 2013

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