Same
Difference
by
C.B. Anderson
How fitting, to
find out the man
you thought had
loved
you all these
years was sleeping
with your younger
sister,
shortly after
the ripened figure
of a dove
you used to babysit
responded, when
you kissed her
flushed cheek,
in a way that
lifted you past
the fear
of tendering your
own too genuine
reply --
this chilled you
warmly and raised
the long-lowered
bar
positioned so
that birds who
well knew how
to fly
did not displace
the strutting
cock. Consider
this:
The venue where
your knickers
drop seldom affects
your feelings
there and then,
and you'll be
really pissed
if left standing
with unmet cravings.
Sex is sex,
and all the normatives
conditioned thoughts
involve
do not add up
to dick, much
less your quandary
solve.
©
2009 by C.B. Anderson
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About the Author
C.B.
Anderson
was the longtime
gardener for the
PBS television
series, The Victory
Garden. Many scores
of his poems have
appeared in dozens
of print and electronic
journals. His
e-chapbook, A
Walk in the Dark,
can be read on
the website of
The New Formalist
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