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"Sex Without Love" by Sharon Olds

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"Sex Without Love" by Sharon Olds

Postby aurelius on Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:19 am

from Blood, Tin, Straw

How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked
inside each other's bodies, faces
red as steak, wine, wet as the
children at birth whose mothers are going to
give them away. How do they come to the
come to the come to the God come to the
still waters, and not love
the one who came there with them, light
rising slowly as steam off their joined
skin? These are the true religious,
the purists, the pros, the ones who will not
accept a false Messiah, love the
priest instead of the God. They do not
mistake the lover for their own pleasure,
they are like great runners: they know they are alone
with the road surface, the cold, the wind,
the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-
vascular health--just factors, like the partner
in the bed, and not the truth, which is the
single body alone in the universe
against its own best time.
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Postby jenaka on Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:50 pm

what happened?
how do they come to the come to the come...?
haha ok, it looks very strange. this is messing with my ability to say much else about the piece. i do think there are areas of touch, rather than just airbourne thought, which was nice. the wet babies, mothers gave away is interesting.

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