Friday, November 2, 2012

and who ever said you couldn't masturbate to mendelssohn anyway

you want to fuck all your
professors, but more than
anything you want the short 
philosophy adjunct, too angry
to ever get tenure, with his 
slimmed shoulders lifting 
up his head in a fuck-you to
gravity, melon-skull toppling 
on his neck the way whole 
basketballs spin on the tip
of a middle finger--you 
want him reciting

latin to you in the middle of sex, his
body soft and concave as a contact lens, bed
squeaking underneath you like

"e, e, e, 
e pluribus unum"-- look, that's
the only latin you know and you might
have lifted it straight from the back of
a dollar bill but this is your daydream, 
okay, you pretend it's clever and

once-dropped from the mouth of virgil
 if you want. mornings, you pepper names
of long-gone white men into your coffee
instead of gold leaf, wear skirts without
underwear to class (don't cross your legs):

dead languages are 
your aphrodisiac

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