The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 7/23/06)

[RetroLounge]

She Wants a Dick for a Day

a penis of her own, her Johnson, her Peter.
She'd find a new name better than the 477
others. She wants her own penis like
she wants her own rooms she can keep
neat or sloppy, squirt with perfume or
let glisten with musk and sweat. It's great
to be in other lovers' bones, feeling
what they've got move inside her. But

today she wants a tower of flesh from
her own flesh. She wants to be God,
at least Adam, move with it coiled
between her legs, comfortable as an

old worn bathrobe. She doesn't
want to shave her legs high, wash
chocolate off her lips or have anyone
rub it all over her nipples. Doesn't

want anybody else's stubble rubbing any
part of her pale silk skin raw,
doesn't want fingers or tongues exploring
every crack, doesn't want to have to

pretend, or have him bitch that she's
talking about something that isn't him, eating
m & m's or that she's gained ten
pounds or her titties are too

little. A dick for a day might get addictive,
true, but today she's too busy, burned
out to try to get what's soft into a
hard missile, her lips and mouth tired, her

fingers all cramps from what doesn't work
and she's not up for his bitching when
we first and his how come you don't shake
that ass those little legs like you did before.

Lyn Lifshin

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Lyn Lifshin has written more than 100 books and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the U.S.A., and her work has been included in virtually every major anthology of recent writing by women. She has given more than 700 readings across the U.S.A. and has appeared at Dartmouth and Skidmore colleges, Cornell University, the Shakespeare Library, Whitney Museum, and Huntington Library. Lyn Lifshin has also taught poetry and prose writing for many years at universities, colleges and high schools, and has been Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. Winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off, Lyn is the subject of the documentary film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. For her absolute dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for managing to survive on her own apart from any major publishing house or academic institution, Lifshin has earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Presses." She has been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders has seen her as "a modern Emily Dickinson."

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RL

If you have a request for a certain Poet, post their name in the thread and I will find a poem by them and post it...

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[lizziegrace]

1. I wonder

how many men would like to trade places with a woman for a day, and what that poem would say...

Morning RL! :hug: (cowboy jammies?)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good morning, my dear RetroLounge!

Yowza! This is quite a poem, esp. on a Sunday!

She does make a case for it, though......IMHO!

I haven't gotten there yet........:blush:

I thank you.......:loveya:

[yvr girl]

3. Personally, I've always wanted one when it comes time to

negotiate a salary. When I was in Bali, they had these carved, wooden ones you could buy. I really considered it, so I could whip it out at review time. lol

...but I wouldn't have the balls.

[RetroLounge]

4. ...

:rofl:

RL

[yvr girl]

5. It's not nice to laugh at those with no balls

:grr:

[RetroLounge]

6. You can borrow mine...

RL

[yvr girl]

7. I was hoping you had

an 8 ball, so I could ask it questions. I forget to you rub them or shake them...or something else?

[RetroLounge]

9. If you rub the balls softly you can usually get a reponse

:D

RL

[yvr girl]

12. I'll keep that little factoid

tucked away for future reference.

[Callalily]

8. Sorry RL . . .

just can't comment on your poem selection today . . . but rest assured, I'm grinning from ear to ear.

[RetroLounge]

10. grinning from ear to ear...

A good poem will do that to you...

:D

RL

[idgiehkt]

11. I really like this.

There seems to be some assonance in the first lines that kind of hooks you and distracts you from the subject matter enough to continue. I like it, she does a great job with this. Thanks for introducing me to her.