The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 4/7/2008)

[RetroLounge]

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:

RL

[lizziegrace]

1. Deliver us from complicity...

"acts mean what they really are:
the purity of loving
for the sake of love."

Bring on menopause... ;-)

[xchrom]

2. ...

feeling the scourge
of Increase and Multiply,


he could have just asked for a good spanking.

[lizziegrace]

3. hehe...

:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

6. "just asked for a good spanking"

:rofl:

RL

[libodem]

4. what an interesting subject

to wax poetic about. Hmmmm? It is well done.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro...

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: