Rewriting Ovid

...as if
by Louise Robertson


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Fellatio Poem #3: My Favorite Romantic Cliche

My favorite romantic cliche
is the long walk
on a beach at sunset, but make it
nighttime
and we're not walking -- we're
going down on each
other in the tall grasses
on the dunes. That the sea
is a body perspiring and heaving
with salt water blood,
ah, yeah, that's why I like
the beach. Hiss
and pull in the air.

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