poems from True Love (Wood Works Press, 2003)

SEX IN LONG MARRIAGE

We, who used to strive for communication,
are now content with fornication; we,
who used to strive to make our pleasure more
and greater--the Kamasutra's illustrations,
Dr. Ruth's injunctions; toys and lotions,
the emancipated clitoral orgasm
which, like the new VCR, came with instructions;
forbidden locales; novel positions--have come
at length to like the one way we like best
best again, and, parting tacky torsos,
lift our bums across the wet spot love
has made and turn to sleep. So much for fashion.
As if a sucking babe would get more fun
from a tit dyed blue or rubbed with Tiger Balm.

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