Self-serve away, Stephen, I apologize, as I do remember those well....
As some would have it today, anyway, it's all performance, gender,
agency, self.....
Doug
On 13-Mar-08, at 4:19 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Less you forget, dear Doug, my own foray of Sapphic improvs from Ann
> Carson's "If not, winter," in Sleeping With Sappho. The Sappho
> 'personae' I have 'created' (or 'sleep with'!) - multifarious as
> she is - is quite androgynous & seems to go after anything that
> moves. Gender identity is hardly the 'controlling' factor. Age is
> what does her in finally. A couple of samples:
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> 33.
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> Why not you, Eleanor,
> Fresh oysters, ready to shuck.
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> 34.
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> stars with no moon
> luminous to a fault
> here comes Mars
> pink, full
> and, oh, so close.
>
> 118.
>
> Heah, Geronicus, a divorce, just as you wanted
> A contract with no deal breaker
> And you got the space she wanted
> No longer buckled over, straight up on your legs
> Sweet as cool water, a smooth feel
> In your crotch:
>
> Eleanor got what you wanted, amiably.
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> If interested, go to:
> Sleeping With Sappho (a faux ebook at:
> http://www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/
> "...it's like being in a hotel room and listening with my ear to the
> bedroom wall, and hearing time pass between lovers on the other
> side, and hearing conversations, and I laugh, or wonder, and
> sometimes the wall becomes limestone, and sometimes air, with
> nothing between the reader and the fragment of a voice receding."
> Jean Vengua
>
> A little self-serving here, but what the hell!
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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