WH AUDEN IS A DIRTY LITTLE SLUT

[defrog]

You know it’s the 21st century when the New York Times (a.k.a. al Qaeda HQ, if you believe everything Bill O’Reilly says) does a review on an American erotic poem anthology and actually uses words like “fellatio”. Progress! Thirty years ago – or even six months ago – readers would furiously cancel ther subscriptions over things like that.

Okay, so if you read the same article aloud on TV, the FCC would fine yr ass into bankruptcy. Probably.

Anyway, here’s what I learned from the review:

1. American poets actually do write erotica, even though we’re a Christian nation and stuff.

2. Most of it, according to the reviewer, isn’t that good – especially when it’s written by straight men. Unless John Updike wrote it. Then it’s fucking horrible.

3. The quality of erotic poetry is as subjective as any other form of erotica.

4. Theme-based poem anthologies are a bad idea.

5. If yr going to write an erotic poem, make it so naughty that even the New York Times can’t quote a single line from it.

WH Auden did. He wrote the best poem ever on the fellatios. You can read it here. It’s made of AWESOME.

Still, for my money, the best overall sex poem ever is this one by Jill Alexander Essbaum:

On Reading Poorly Transcribed Erotica

She stood before him wearing only pantries
and he groped for her Volvo under the gauze.
She had saved her public hair, and his cook
went hard as a fist.  They fell to the bad.
He shoveled his duck into her posse 
and all her worm juices spilled out.
Still, his enormous election raged on.
Her beasts heaved as he sacked them,
and his own nibbles went stuff as well.
She put her tong in his rear and talked ditty.
Oh, it was all that he could do not to comb.

Damn. I wish I’d written that.

The Satanic verses,

This is dF

Comments

[garbagecanmusic.livejournal.com]

Best. Romance novel cover. Evah.

[thelastaerie.livejournal.com]

hotdamn... that W H Auden. I am glad to hear that (some) Americans are having erotically charged sex.