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The college porters gathered

en masse Tuesday

for raucous pursuits

intimate pursuits

backs bared

dealing deck after deck

in games of staggering complexity

which continued through the

random momentum of the game alone

the cards answerable to nil

but their own continued movement

and they drank college wine

from deep in the stores

and got wild on it

kneading and gnawing the varied fleshes

of the handful of lady porters

who took to all fours and

crawled the room evocatively

like the mammals they were

all pocked doughy arses and genitalia in burgundy

the source of great intrigue as

they toiled past institutional furniture

knees raw from the coarse shag

ladies who stripped of blue uniform trousers

and heavy soled shoes were middle aged

and nubile and profoundly accommodating

hard faces softened by the lamplight

over which a college flag

had been carefully draped,

the ten, twelve male porters that formed

would wrestle,

would grunt and thrust

and pump and pulse

feel the sticky spilt wine

upon their chest and pubis

and collapse breathless in unruly embrace

that climaxed with ritual

beneficiaries of the ancient will

of the college that for these very rituals

took genital form.