Thrills and Swoon Romantic Novels
Your fantasy reaches as far as your hands ~ Lorca,
“Oda a Salvador Dalí” (Ode to Salvador Dalí)
The prophet is a poet. His experience is one known to the poets. What the poets know as poetic inspiration, the prophets call divine revelation.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
How could this Lorca possibly have known
About the worldwide internet, the glands
On vids across it and the porno groan
And lurching thrusts that motivate men’s hands
In every corner, earphones keeping wife
From hearing how her hubby’s daydreams fill
His screens. Pathetic marriage bedroom strife
Is abrogated as he makes his spill
In tissue paper at his laptop, smile
Too mild a thing replaced by grimace of
The gasping face while she alone can wile
Away her time by reading check-out love.
The novels there are quite as much obscene
In falsity as is his porno screen.
~ Phillip Whidden
by phillipw | Jul 10, 2024 | MI, PO, RO |