Michael Pereira (maddoc@siacs.demon.co.uk) sends in these two for yer Valentine's day (presumably) pleasure (presumably). He reports he's a 31-year-old "cynic of Love's wonderlust and dis- enchanted Romanticist." Also a psychosexual counsellor and therapist.




Foot Spa

You wash your feet each digit carefully scrubbed pumice stone, nearly worn through ... again.
You take such care so much attention payed to detail and to ritual
now dry each toe undividually

and, feel free to walk all over me again.



How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Through 1) Assault
and 2) Bondage
I am
your 3) Hostage
4) Submission 5) Sadism 6) Rapist 7) Disrespect 8) Humiliation 9) Suffocation
You are
my 10) Jail 11) Jailer 12) Prisoner

and I
foolishly, besotted, irrationally
remain your
13) Lover

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