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Cultivating Life

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A traffic jam that spans an entire epoch

Is followed by daily punishments of

Dreary Sisyphean meanderings,

Followed by even more traffic

In sweltering heat and sticky humidity.

 

With all energy drained from

Lungs, limbs, and mind,

He shuffles into his house

Seeking only relief and brief reprieve.

 

As he unbuttons his soaked shirt,

“Do me,” assaults his ears

With cheerful urgency.

“My basal temperature spiked today.”

 

Probable ovulation noted,

The expectation is clear.

She lies on her back, spread eagle,

With a pillow under her hips.

 

“Can’t it wait awhile—

long enough for a shower—

long enough to freshen up?”

His pleas are unwelcome.

 

Dejected and defeated, he

Peels off and gets to work.

Somewhere, future progeny

Await their turn at being.

 

And this is how the world blooms—

Not with a bang, but a whimper—

Mechanical sex, dead eyes, routine pollination.

Worker bees serve the Queen

Of procreation with neither question nor zeal.

 

A poet, somewhere, puts down his pen,

And waits for the next fantasy to fall

Into his frail imaginary pool.

 

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Randy Horton

Wed 17th Oct 2018 15:54

Well, it didn't hurt anything. Cheers.

<Deleted User> (18980)

Wed 17th Oct 2018 11:15

Fine, all three. Did her technique work...who knows?

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Randy Horton

Wed 17th Oct 2018 08:06

And how are the kids? ?

<Deleted User> (18980)

Tue 16th Oct 2018 19:00

My wife, desperate to conceive, used to put her legs in the air after sex to maximise the flow of sperm to her ovaries.

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