Embracing
Men’s friendship is love reduced to greed, true
Covetousness dressed up as affection–
Or so says Nietzsche. It is reduced 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 status, power wolfed down shrewdly.
A man’s reach should exceed his best friend’s grasp.
This hug is the meaning of friendship’s clasp.
