Well presented, Max. I started out in poetry with sex as one of my themes,
but it has withered on the vine over the decades. You approached it so
well.
Andrew
On 17 December 2014 at 08:09, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
>
> Gosh Max you published it !!!brave man!!:-)keep creaking
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 16 December 2014 20:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: a private chat
>
> A Private Chat
> with Patrick,
> so to Speak
>
> How's my sex life?
> My privates are
>
> private, thank you.
> More neurotic
>
> than erotic.
> Yes, some flirtation,
>
> one-sided,
> be it noted;
>
> a modicum of
> discreet voyeurism
>
> and though it isn't
> what it used to be,
>
> old replays of nostalgia
> like top-to-toe neuralgia
>
> flooding impromptu
> through mind and body
>
> or at the oddest
> opportunity
>
> twingeing still.
> How's yours, you pill?
>
> Did you try that pill?
> Never would, never will.
>
> Ah memories,
> their long journeys,
>
> such long trainloads
> creaking at the couplings.=
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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