A Hovering Sexual Position
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
The poet, Rupert Brooke, felt trouble with
Deciding what his sex position was.
He listened to his gay friends’ favorite myth
That what they did with males, those touched with fuzz
Around their genitals, was normal as
Banal sex stuff in marriage beds. When James
Desired him to perform his sexy snazz
In him, Brooke nixed that form of manly flames.
Noël was whom he wanted to deep poke,
But she rejected Rupert. After he
Was dead, Noël took Rupert’s would be bloke,
James Strachey, in her hole she used to pee.
Imagine Rupert floating low above
Them, ghostly, just as James began to shove.
~ Phillip Whidden
