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A Tongue In My Cheek (Beat Poet Contest)
by Mainon A SchwartzI love the way you hold me
(DOWN)
Today's curves are threatened by tomorrow's barbs.
This bed was created to aid your oppression-- why else
would I lie flat while you spread yourself above?
But such questions always settle to the bottom.
I love the way I hold you
(UP)
A man with power always plants his feet on the back
of a woman under him. I am such fertile soil
(and so goddesses are women who yield themselves
to the grown men emerging from their wombs.)
I love the way you hold me
(UNDER)
I sink in the way that rubber ducks don't. In your arms
I plunge into an ocean I've never understood, and with
a mouth full of water I protest that you never taught
me how to swim. You whisper to me that you know
I love to drown this way, with a tongue in my cheek. 10/30/2003 Posted on 10/30/2003
Copyright © 2024 Mainon A Schwartz
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Agnes Eva on 10/30/03 at 11:18 PM ooh, this has such an interesting buoyant rhythm and a balance between grrl power and lover succumbing |
| Posted by Rachelle Howe on 10/31/03 at 02:36 PM now that's what i'm talkin' about. brilliant, doll. *grin* how much hit the chopping floor for this one? ;) intense and ringing. awesome. |
| Posted by Melina Raven Maness Diebold on 11/11/03 at 09:15 PM This line is divine: "I sink in the way that rubber ducks don't"
Absolute perfection! |
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