an almost accidental gathering of poets
 
   
 
 
Eunice de Souza
 (1979)
POEM FOR A POET
It pays to be a poet.
You don´t have to pay prostitutes.

Marie has spiritual thingummies.
Write her a poem about the
Holy Ghost. Say:
´Marie, my frequent sexual encounters
represent more than an attempt
to find mere physical fulfilment.
They are a poet´s struggle to transcend the self
and enter into
communion
with the world.´

Marie´s eyes will glow.
Pentecostal flames will descend.
The Holy Ghost will tremble inside her.
She will babble in strange tongues:

´O Universal Lover
in a state of perpetual erection!
Let me too enter into
communion with the world
through thee.´

Rita loves music and
has made a hobby of psychology.
Undergraduate, and better still,
uninitiated.
Write her a poem about woman flesh.
Watch her become oh so womanly and grateful.
Giggle with her about
horrid mother keeping an eye
on the pair, the would-be babes
in the wood, and everything will be
so idyllic, so romantic
so in time

Except that you, big deal,
are forty-six
and know what works
with whom.
   
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