When I Get Busy

Greatpoets talks for me.

The Lovers
by Dorianne Laux

She is about to come. This time,
they are sitting up, joined below the belly,
feet cupped like sleek hands praying
at the base of each other's spines.
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is traveling toward something essential,
toward the core of her need, so he simply
watches, steadily, with an animal calm
as she arches and screams, watches the face that,
if she could see it, she would never let him see.


Lots of interesting relationship-thinking stuff like: I've only had two romantic relationships in my life. The one with Juggler's got better once I dropped the romantic stuff and just did the love-sex-friend thing. The one with Chris was spectaculat and wasn't romantic for me, but was good friend-love-sex. I think in romantic relationships I go weird/impractical maybe?

It's bad to live a relationship as if every day is the last. Instead, live it as if every day is the first of your lifetime together.