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JGuberman  Sep 2016
Mechitzah
JGuberman Sep 2016
Your voice on the phone
is a provocation

Your appearance in the doorway later
is an incitement

It's not your fault

You merely exist

But it's too much for me to handle

So I ***** a wall
and even that is a provocation and an incitement
for I can't escape the knowledge of who's on the other side
with all my concentration
I redirect my thoughts away from this evil inclination
to ****** a secret peek that can't be secret
and I recoil in my guilt
asking forgiveness

from whom?
A *mechitzah* is a man made barrier erected to separate the sexes in Orthodox Judaism

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