Safe Sex Poem by Donald Hall

Safe Sex

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If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident
they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;

if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire
only the tribute of another's cry; if they employ each other

as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel—
then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,

no frenzy, no hurled words of permanent humiliation,
no trembling days, no vomit at midnight, no repeated

apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond's edge

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dr Antony Theodore 26 November 2019

f she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire only the tribute of another's cry; if they employ each other as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel— then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread, a good poem. tony

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Michael Walker 31 August 2019

Well worth reading and thinking about. Abstinence?

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Martin O'Neill 16 March 2012

An interesting take on an oft used phrase. I love the way poets see different levels and aspects of language. I may never hear this expression in quite the same way again. Thank you.

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