Monday 7 March 2011

Sexuality: choice or hardwired

Ahh.

The problem with hardwiring
I find
Is that it has so little give.

Even the word:
hardwired
So many edges,
Spiky vowels;
the curvaceous, sensuous ‘g’ merely tagged on like an afterthought.

So much for being
Good
Giving
And Game
(thanks, Dan Savage)

It might be good.
It’s a computing metaphor, so it’s got to be game.
But giving?
I’m not feeling it.

And I like (to be) a generous lover.

Choice,
On the other hand
Is round
Open
Enveloping
With a lingering
Sibilant
‘ssssss’
like a tip-of-the-tongue caress

Perhaps it depends on whether you want to be whipped
Ouch
Spanked
Ooh
Cut
Mmmm

Or swallowed.

Let’s choose…to embrace it all
To dissolve the binary in the mess we make.

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