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Scrambled Love - Poem

Literary Review,  Spring, 2001  by Stephen Coyne

   We don't subscribe
   to the sex channel
   but it still comes
   into the house on 69
   oohing and aahing,
   barking, ye-es! oh
   ye-es! And on screen
   between crazy diagonal
   lines bodies appear
   dismembered, and
   positions glimpsed
   through the electronic
   tease reveal fantastic
   possibilities one can
   barely even conceive.
   So why should we buy
   the full-blown service,
   the easy explicitness
   of spread legs, humping
   backs, and predictable
   pokings there and there
   and there? Why would we
   when we get the best
   for free--the hint, the hope
   the titillating treasure
   of glimpses between the
   lines? We grope greedily
   through the distortions
   looking for the familiar,
   and in that luscious
   scramble of lust
   the familiar is,
   like good sex,
   always a surprise.

Stephen Coyne's work has appeared in The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere

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