{"sf1_id":1152473,"sf2_id":"GnDDP2Xn","title":"Melody of Mating","author":"charles_they","words":128,"posted_at":"2017-03-02T00:03:46.000Z","tags":["Ballad","Drunk","First Time","Fox","Gay","Gay Relationship","Gay sex","Horse","M/M","Male","Male/Male","Poem","Poetry","grope","one night stand"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1152473-melody-of-mating","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/GnDDP2Xn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/52/c8/52c8d742-c30c-41ad-b75f-0b3c0d312ade","description":"A ballad on self-discovery in a world where one feels out of place.","content":"### Melody of Mating\n\nDim streetlamps light the barside street,\u0026nbsp;\n\nWet pavement fills the air,\n\nA drunk, alone and incomplete\n\nHas struck out with a mare.\n\nHis father tells him, \"Cheer up son,\n\nThere's plenty in the sea,\"\n\nWhile mother says \"You'll find someone!\n\nAnd have a kid—or three!\"\n\nBut when a Tod comes stumbling by,\n\nAnd bums a cigarette,\n\nThe drunk can't seem to say goodbye,\n\nHis appetite now whet.\n\nThe door slams shut, their muzzles meet,\n\nPaws down the fronts of jeans,\n\nAs shirts come off, they find the sheets,\n\nHe knows just what this means.\n\nThe morning next, the Tod is gone,\n\nThe drunk's a drunk no more,\n\nHe mopes—then finds a note, \"From Shawn—\n\nAnother round at four?\"\n\n* * *\n\n-Charles Michael Averin","series":{"name":"Erotic/NSFW","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1148359-an-epitaph-for-eager-foxes.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1153621-elicit.json"}}