You wake alone and
think about sex and go back
to sleep if you can.
We say, ‘to sleep with’;
Plato says Want slept with More
and begot Eros.
Euphemism or
not, ‘sleep with’ covers it. Sex,
good, bad, or fake, if
rounded with a sleep,
deserves the lame epithet
recreational.
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Metaxyturn Diaries 
want slept with More and begat Eros. Lack and its satiatio give rise to desire. Itr is not that lack itself gives rise to desire. Teh poem finesses this logical structure–it is a poem and not a logical proprosition–and gives the reader a view at once intimate and full of wise distance on the ache of memory and the body-memory of companioning desire which gives rise to wakefulnes, mindfulness, perhaps hinted at in the expression ‘carnal knowledge’, but this a knowledge beyond the porous bounaries of what we conjceive of as the individual and instead happening between.
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