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Mon Apr-07-08 07:11 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 4/7/2008) |
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Vasectomy
After the steaming bodies swept through the hungry streets of swollen cities; after the vast pink spawning of family poisoned the rivers and ravaged the prairies; after the gamble of latex and diaphragms and pills; I invoked the white robes, gleaming blades ready for blood, and, feeling the scourge of Increase and Multiply, made affirmation: Yes, deliver us from complicity. And after the precision of scalpels, I woke to a landscape of sunshine where the catbird mates for life and maps trace out no alibis-stepped into a morning of naked truth, where acts mean what they really are: the purity of loving for the sake of love.
Philip Appleman
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:hi:
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Mon Apr-07-08 09:43 AM
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1. Deliver us from complicity... |
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"acts mean what they really are: the purity of loving for the sake of love."
Bring on menopause... ;-)
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Mon Apr-07-08 09:49 AM
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feeling the scourge of Increase and Multiply,
he could have just asked for a good spanking.
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Mon Apr-07-08 12:37 PM
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Mon Apr-07-08 06:36 PM
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6. "just asked for a good spanking" |
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Mon Apr-07-08 12:48 PM
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4. what an interesting subject |
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to wax poetic about. Hmmmm? It is well done.
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Mon Apr-07-08 03:26 PM
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Now, this is beautiful!
For any man who's afraid of getting one...
This poem says just what's involved:
...where acts mean what they really are: the purity of loving for the sake of love.
Thank you...
:hi:
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