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My Body Is a Great Electrical Conductor, but Don’t Tell Zeus That

Sarah Blake

How many times have I had sex and not had a child?
I loved a man who grew sick and died thinking us at war.
And I guess we were. And—except—he was not thinking.
Do I often consider a thought by if it can linger, remain? 

Remember, don’t tell Zeus. 

When this man was wearing a shirt covered in triangles,
I saw letters. I said when a woman was wearing a shirt. 
I said when anyone. I said when a man is not wearing— 

I said don't tell Zeus.

I feel less turned on seeing a naked man than when I see
two people kissing. Do you think about war? Does your
desire overwhelm you? I'm too aware. That man is too
dead. All the children I didn't have, more than dead. 

My body best at electrical conduction, and yet, I don't ask that of it.

 

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