Seduction is rape- confessions of an old lothario

 

I discovered sex!
Wow!
But how to get it?

“Want to come to my bed?
We’ll  have fun I said.”
That worked at fifteen.

“umm, I haven’t done it, do you like me?”

“I’m sitting on the roof to watch the sunset”
I should have married that one.

”Let’s get stoned and play”
That worked for many years

“I love your work,
it speaks to me,
in ways I can’t express”
Nailed several artists that way.

“I think I might be gay”
That worked in the seventies,
don’t even think about it post-aids

“I could never write a poem good enough for you”
Worked twice.

“The sun shines from your arse”
(she was a cinematographer, of course it worked)

Now I find that truth hurts,
I have many loving platonic female friends
I don’t carefully choose my shirts
and there are no painful ends

But how to get it?