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Helping Yourself

***** he stands; (he has no midnight plans,

but one). From stroke of dawn, to coming dusk

he plays himself the song of lonesome hands:

first lost, then found, himself alone in lust.

The pleasure passes quickly; shaft will fret

through spasms rushing body (stiff and red)

‘till passion splurging, flying – white and wet –

then falls to bed in blissful blank of head.

The dripping love and ecstasy, once mine,

has gone and passed – the small false-death

of rhyme;so still, I sit, past stupor *** divine:

(the sex-less *** that’s made for private time).

So help yourself, but please, take note of this:

to play is fun – but nothing like a kiss!

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Written by
richard-j-heby
American
Published
May 30, 2012
Lines·Words
14·116
Notes

one of my first sonnets.

wrote it out of spite for my poetry teacher.

now we are good friends.

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