To a
Dark Lady*
“Something inside
is telling me that
I’ve got your secret.
Are you still listening?
Fear is the lock, and laughter
the key to your heart….
… you are what you are.
And you make it hard,
and you make it hard….”
* Suggested by…
(1) A Harvard Crimson opinion piece
of Oct. 12, “A Psychosexual Sham”
(2) Remarks on the sin of masturbation
(Ask Father Hardon)
(3) Shem was a sham…. (FW I.7, 170).
See also the Crimson on Jack Nicholson
and Log24 on a food joke.
“Ours is a very gutsy religion, Cullinane.”
— The Source, by James A. Michener
Tell it to James Joyce.