By slug
Date: 5 March 2001

incarnate

you have made me an incarnation of every written woman
(she launched a thousand ships as)
                   i writhed in your sheets
(she solemnly followed her husband to exile and)
             i offer my flesh up to your branding lips
                          and i understand.

i understand why they immortalized his temptation by her

  (if her skin quaked as mine did,
               there is little wonder why she followed him,
                        little wonder why they warred...)

but the orpah winfrey answer allows only this:
                          your long road is paved with mine,
                          you are my foundation,
                          and with you i become a skyscraper

but the reality...
       let me be your mary, your juliet -
            and give me my sin again
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