Monday, September 3, 2018

If It Wants You



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The Sex Thing perversely had got
him. He was sixty-seven years old!
How had he suddenly turned into hot?
Temperate, pale, grey more than gold,
.
he now causes trances: his glance claws
its way to the gut of a male. He’s a sexual
destiny now! Surely this breaks the laws
of what’s apt, defies the contextual
.
walls meant to stop him from acting
as if he could ever be ardently loved
for his flesh: instead this exacting
profusion of lusts, lavishly shoved
.
into bulges, tumescently running
a new porno show – but whose?
He feels like a puppet, a stringed thing,
lit match in the dark: but he’ll choose
.
to excite and incite till he can’t. Some
fiat decrees: don’t buy only sell,
keep the dough. Don’t let And become
But. Let heaven keep giggling at hell.
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If rhymes made him up, they’d be easy
and languid. They’d sway, and they’d say:
“Be as breezy as we and as subtly sleazy.
If it wants you, don’t get in its way.”
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