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karneliann
Junior Member
since 1999-10-28
Posts 44
Baltimore, MD, USA

0 posted 1999-11-12 11:13 AM


who spilled sex in the bathroom?

I was minding my own
brooding over
the sterility
of my place of business
desiccated by ultraviolet
ultraviolence, whatever
they happen to hit you with
windowless taupe and tin

so I enter the bathroom
secure myself in
and what to my wondering
eyes should appear
but a radiant goddess
serene smile glinting
off disinfected tile
beckoning my limp little jaw
with a crook of her luminous finger

amazed, I advance
but at some point
during my infinite journey
she melted
and in the place where she shone
I almost slipped in her puddle
of extraterrestrial plasm
that still gave the bathroom
a little glow of daylight.

I went back to my desk
rejuvenated.



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"My empire is of the imagingation." -- She

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jenni
Member
since 1999-09-11
Posts 478
Washington D.C.
1 posted 1999-11-12 04:48 PM


ewwww... is this poem about what i think it's about?

do guys really do that kind of thing during the day?

at the office????

did you go outside for a cigarette afterwards? lol


[This message has been edited by jenni (edited 11-12-1999).]

Vers Librist
Junior Member
since 1999-11-10
Posts 16

2 posted 1999-11-12 07:25 PM


Very interesting, but I'm with jenni on this one--what a mental picture!
karneliann
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since 1999-10-28
Posts 44
Baltimore, MD, USA
3 posted 1999-11-12 11:49 PM


okay, don't panic. it's not a true story or anything. i just thought the topic was thought-provoking. and it doesn't necessarily have to be taken literally. the point of the poem is that something disrupted the sterility of the office environment, which, personally, drives me crazy. and if it takes visions and sex to do that, then so be it. it's difficult for me to explain, but i think it's interesting. it's a meeting of two dramatically different worlds. this probably doesn't help at all, but it's okay. i don't mind if you think i'm a perv. i just think about weird stuff, i guess.

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"My empire is of the imagingation." -- She

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA
4 posted 1999-11-13 08:51 AM


What kind of critic is interesting? At this point, that's about all I can say. I did like the imagery you used in this piece though.
Vers Librist
Junior Member
since 1999-11-10
Posts 16

5 posted 1999-11-13 01:15 PM


I don't think you're a "perv." I see your point about mixing two different worlds. I like it better now.
Iloveit
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since 1999-09-02
Posts 1121
NM
6 posted 1999-11-15 12:17 PM


*g* I like it, I think he did a really good job, that he made us see without actually saying the "words" is what makes it good
Lolita
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since 1999-11-09
Posts 44
Buffalo, NY, America
7 posted 1999-11-16 07:58 AM


I do tik you are a "perv", but it takes one to know one and I can't see anything wrong with it myself. Liked the imagery.
Lolita
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since 1999-11-09
Posts 44
Buffalo, NY, America
8 posted 1999-11-16 07:59 AM


I do think you are a "perv", but it takes one to know one and I can't see anything wrong with it myself. Liked the imagery.
karneliann
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since 1999-10-28
Posts 44
Baltimore, MD, USA
9 posted 1999-11-16 09:43 AM


you know what cracks me up? you all think i'm a boy, but did it occur to you that perhaps i am a girl? i personally think it's not terribly important, but the fact that everyone refers to me as "he" is very interesting. maybe we are conditioned to believe that only boys think about things like this. i guess that makes me even more of a perv, eh? cuz it's certainly not "ladylike"!

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"My empire is of the imagination." -- She

Iloveit
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since 1999-09-02
Posts 1121
NM
10 posted 1999-11-16 01:14 PM


sure but the reader is going by your poem, and the first indication is that a "goddess" tempted you, unless you the author give indication as different, then the majority would see you as a male....doesn't have anything to do with that only males think this way. I am a female and take an orgasmic break in my day now and then...hey no perv here, just think I deserve the pleasure.
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