The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 6/29/2007)

[RetroLounge]

The Discovery of Sex

We try to be discreet standing in the dark
hallway by the front door. He gets his hands
up inside the front of my shirt and I put mine
down inside the back of his jeans. We are crazy
for skin, each other's skin, warm silky skin.
Our tongues are in each other's mouths,
where they belong, home at last. At first

we hope my mother won't see us, but later we don't care,
we forget her. Suddenly she makes a noise
like a game show alarm and says Hey! Stop that!
and we put our hands out where she can see them.
Our mouths stay pressed together, though, and
when she isn't looking anymore our hands go
back inside each other's clothes. We could

go where no one can see us, but we are
good kids, from good families, trying to have
as much discreet sex as possible with my mother and father
four feet away watching strangers kiss on TV,
my mother and father who once did as we are doing,
something we can't imagine because we know

that before we put our mouths together, before
the back seat of his parents' car where our skins
finally become one-before us, these things
were unknown! Our parents look on in disbelief
as we pioneer delights they thought only they knew
before those delights gave them us.

Years later, still we try to be discreet, standing
in the kitchen now where we think she can't see us. I
slip my hands down inside the back of his jeans
and he gets up under the front of my shirt.
We open our mouths to kiss and suddenly Hey! Hey!
says our daughter glaring from the kitchen doorway.
Get a room! she says, as we put our hands
out where she can see them.

Debra Spencer

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RL

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[xchrom]

1. sex is the one thing you retain from youth

that's as good and fun as it was the first time.

[RetroLounge]

2. Actually, it's only gotten better with age...

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

5. ahhhh -- the Discovered Land.

becoming the better Explorer with each new voyage.

tease.;)

[RetroLounge]

7. Teasing is part of the journey...

:9

RL

[xchrom]

8. true

a kind of map for Treasure that lies -- right there --

xchrom marks the spot.

[RetroLounge]

9. Oooh, careful, that tickles...

:D

RL

[xchrom]

11. ...

tickles for now --


:evilgrin: damn it! -- there's no good smiley for that...

[RetroLounge]

12. We need a whole new set of smilies for that!

:rofl:

RL

[Haole Girl]

3. The circle of life

I like that...I've never read a poem describing it so well.

Thank you for posting it, RL.

[BarenakedLady]

4. Ahhhhhh

Morning!

:hi:

[Inchworm]

6. Hehe

That was cute.

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. If I ever saw my parents going at it I'd slog them mercilessly.

Parents don't have sex (except for that one time when I was created). Jeesh. :P

:scared::scared:

:rofl:

Cool poem. :)

[RetroLounge]

13. Your parents are doing it right now...

Bumping uglies as we speak...

:D

RL

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. I don't think so. My dad's being a lazy ass somewhere, my mom's at code enforcement...

Unless she wasn't really going to code enforcement??????

*dunh dunh DUUNNNNH*

:scared:

:P

Besides, the way my mom always complains when she thinks only her girlfriends can hear her, she don't get it often. :o

[RetroLounge]

15. code enforcement?

:shrug:

RL

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. Code enforcement office. She's an RE agent.

Had to go yell at a few code enforcement officers over a messed-up situation with one of the properties she has listed.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear Retro...

Wow, how close to the bone this one is.......

Beautiful!

She has captured the emotions, the touching, the longing, so very well....

Thank you, sweetie...:hug:

[RetroLounge]

18. ...

:hug:

RL