image credit: DHBogucki 2018

Getting Off on Dishes

The dishes, they don’t “do” themselves.
One can wish the pleasure of masturbation

onto inanimate objects.
One can wish life

to take care of itself.
It’s a wonder how laziness

and distance from responsibility
divided masturbation from chores.

Demeaned natural bodily cycles needing release.
Why do we distrust hormonal movement?

When did we become suspicious of
our inner motives? Alone lost in our imagination.

Do we break with humanity
by scratching need?

Is it failure? Is it shame?
Is it a little death?

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