All Embracing Love
Men’s love called friendship is reduced to true
Cupidity dressed up in affection–
Or so says Nietzsche. It is carved down to
A South Seas cuisine of male confection,
A sort of cannibalism in which
The two sit down to swallow their brother’s
Diamonds and emeralds, try to enrich
Themselves by dining on one another’s
Experiences and minds, eating up each
Other’s wisdom. To put it crudely,
They want to gobble all that they can reach,
The other’s rank and power wolfed down shrewdly.
A man’s reach should exceed his best friend’s grasp.
Slick hugs are the meaning of friendship’s clasp.
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