My manhood…is very important to me

A short but potent story of Averys secret life.Ladies, it will blow your mind if you knew what your fella was doing behind your back.Fellas, if you have secrets, you understand.Avery is on the downlow. He pours out his story about him and his boy Skate to Andrea whom he prefers to call Dre. for the obvious reason. Then he and "Dre" get into some some stuff of their own.My Manhood has appeared in anthologies and on internet literary sites as My Manhood is Very Important to Me.The story is short, but it speaks loudly from Averys heart.Excerpt 1Ouch! Don?t pinch my nipples so hard with them damn nails. Your nails ruin my illusions. I want you to be a man, not a bitch. Just play with me with your fingertips. Yeah rub my stomach. I know it?s round. It?s round ?cause it?s full of sweet potato pie. You see I ate my girl Charlene the other night. Hell no I ain?t goin? to tell you nothin? about Charlene. You might hard up and go try to get a piece of the sweet potato pie for yourself. Charlene?s got a soft spot for punks. Always tellin? me I ought to be more sensitive. Ain?t that some shit?Excerpt 2Skate and me was beginning to have some static between us. He started hanging round other punks, you know what I?m saying--getting into that gay lifestyle shit, going to punk bars, and shit like that. I told Skate I wasn?t going to no punk bar. Punk bars ain?t got nothin in ?em but punks that look like you... Well you know what I?m saying. I?m not tryin? to call you out, and yeah I got my punk side, but I?m a hard straight-up nigga first. Ain?t never goin? to catch me in no skirt. Then Skate started to want to hang too much. He started talkin? about us gettin? rid of our bitches and me and him livin? together. Skate was my boy, but I couldn?t hang with all that punk shit living together like husband and wife. I loved him in a hard nigga kind of way. But I was a little relieved when he got iced. I mean I didn?t want to have to ice him myself. How you goin? to ice somebody you love, I asked myself. Is it that much liquor in the world to get you drunk enough to ice somebody you love? But my manhood is very important to me. I got to keep the family going. Got to bring some little Avery?s into this world. Can?t let all of my seeds dry up on sheets and get flushed down toilets? in the tips of condoms. That?s why I can?t hang with too much of that punk shit. What would my family say?