I HAVE A NEW COCK...LANGUAGE!

First off, why don't you pick yourselves right up out of that gutter. I have no intention of being pornographic in this post, unless you call the critical use of language the new porn.  His name is Bolivar, who was, of course, the great liberator of much of South America.  At least of Gran Colombia, of which Ecuador was formerly a part. He was of Spanish ancestry, but unlike those of his heritage, and his contemporaries such as Thomas Jefferson, he was not a fan of slavery, which makes him a perfect name choice for my new cock.  

 It apparently is not the norm to name your cock here in Ecuador but I come from a long tradition of cock-naming in my family and thus I couldn't resist.  He is young and growing noticeably every day.  I expect he will be quite large by the time he is fully grown.  You can find a selfie of him above this post and, I must admit, it was difficult to get the angle correct for the shot because Bolivar, when he is puffed up to his finest, has a tendency not to  want to hold still in the frame.  Plus, I am not a photographer, but I do my best with my smart-ass phone.

A hen from next door jumped the wall yesterday (not Doris, I'm afraid), and spent some quality time here in our yard tearing up the soil.  Her jumping over was a gift from heaven for Bolivar who immediately set to the task that all cocks are born to do, but he is still a little too young to achieve the deed.  He's got the approach down right; he sidled right up to the hen, cooed a cluck or two, but then  when  she was not impressed, sort of stood and scratched his head, much like other adolescents I have known, and hoped for some sign to instruct him on procedure.  As the day wore on, he began to follow her around the yard, rather than the other way around, again, which was reminiscent of some relationships I have known.  And, as some males are prone to do, he then acted as if it was his idea all along to go to that particular part of the yard and tried to let her know with a crow that he had been practicing all week, but alas, still in the throes of puberty, the crow turned into some sort of garbled, high-pitched warble that again, was not impressive to the hen. Humiliated, he strode over to hang with the four chicks we now have, who are indeed impressed with both his length and girth, and helped them uncover a couple of baby spiders to munch on. 

I plan to have a stern talk with him about the perils and folly of early dating but I expect to encounter the same kind of stiff resistance I have in the past.  There is this thing called instinct that seems to trump intelligence in some species.  Ours for one.  Ask my son, now 35, who wanted to record my birds and the bees lecture so he could, I was once sure, show his friends how lucky he was to have a father schooled in both sexuality and deviance.  I am now not so sure that was the case and I expect any day that it will show up on YouTube at some inopportune moment, such as when I receive the Nobel Prize for Literature or I am duly honored for my lifetime achievement award by the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.  Either way, I will be humiliated in much the same manner as Bolivar, my new lamentable cock has been.  So much for language.  So much for instinct.  I need a stiff drink.  Then I can go out and see what Bolivar is doing.  Certainly not liberating.  Certainly not leading in any way. 

Perhaps we can hang out together. Talk about being hen-pecked and less than adequate role models for our neighborhood's youth.  Dream of the old days in our chickhoods when hens knew their place and there were no walls to jump.  We'll toast to the memories.

And there, in a nutshell, is the story of my cock.

Oh, do grow up, won't you?