>Good morning Terri, how are you, my friend??
recovering - a few tussocks are appearing and even beginning to coalesce
into small oases.
>Aren't we all like this Terri??
I take your point about the decent into disgust may be overdone but tell me
isn't disgust and shamefulness an element of solo sex which sex with a
Succubus is essentially?? I will take your comments on board nevertheless.
absolutely! that is what makes the poem so effective. Coming from a prudish
culture, I feel that you seduce the reader into complicity with the
paedophilic masturbatory impulse beautifully. The tug towards disgust just
felt a little harder than was strictly necessary. Almost as if you felt a
Victorian obligation to rub our noses in it. I don't know about you, but my
upbringing has a traditional foundation, however postmodernist the facade.
It only takes a quick shimmer on the Richter scale to reveals something much
more rigid and unyielding.
Terri )O(
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