Have you ever been to Electric Lady Land?²
Carnal communion—she’s (C)literally craving—³
Dreaming that the antidote is Orgasm—⁴
Every Orgasm is a Hammerblow and
Beneath the Sparks we are Malleable …⁵
I want us to Merge: a unification,
A complete, comingling infusion of
Separate beings to form new ones—⁶
Stay in me until our bodies
Forget what divides us!⁷
Sex is justified, even Sanctified, as soon as—
But only as long as—it is a vehicle of Love:
Sex is a way of expressing the experience
Of that ultimate Togetherness called Love:⁸
Sex is our great Connection with the world—
At its most Felicitous & Spiritual it’s no servitude
Since it informs everything and enables us to
Inhabit & enjoy all we touch and look upon.⁹
The greatest Beauty earth can offer? I say:
It is whatever one most Lusts after!¹⁰
¹ Laura Hershey, Etc.
² Jimi Hendrix, Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
³ Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose, The Ten Commandments
⁴ Regina Spektor, Genius Next Door
⁵ Lazenby, Infinity to Dine
⁶ Kazunori Itô tr. Paul C. Halbert & Taro Yoshida, Ghost in the Shell
⁷ Danez Smith, Bare
⁸ Viktor E. Frankl tr. Ilse Lasch, Man’s Search for Meaning
⁹ Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
¹⁰ Sappho tr. Aaron Poochigian, Some Call Ships