Sexual Revolution
Sexual Revolution
In the mirror
it is the body she remembers
sexy as S and I and N
it is the fucking she remembers
full fledged
hot and bothered
screaming orgasms
S and I and N
that will never
come again
In the mirror
the body is constrained
now scared
there is no more
free love no more
S and I and N
free as the ‘60s
love revolution and
this is s and a and d
that reflects back
in her mirror
This body of love
that remembers
twisting hips
Amazon breasts
easy as S and I and N
into stray palms
The price paid
twofold in this new
world after the free
reign fledged orgasms
we remember changed
world condoms
AIDS all a sign of
the future that came
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Author's Note
I was inspired by one of Lucille Clifton's poems where she spelled out a word. The word sin brought up the AIDS epidemic and the change in our sexuality since the sexual revolution.
It was published in Gertrude, 2010
This is a poem obviously, I wasn't sure if I had to do something else to have it listed under poetry. I just started here yesterday so don't know my way around yet.
Julene, historic time passes in this poem in a way related to the personal. *