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sex with Shakespeare


all the world’s a stage, & every man’s a bit player trying
to survive his own vaudeville. women too. Shakespeare
said that. or something close.

I try to play my part without those creepy masks, comedy &
drama. just me & my ugly mug. backstage, I ignore the script
& think about the things that stoke the furnace in my gut.

sex & writing are my driving passions, as if that’s a surprise to
anyone. I write about fucking, then fuck so I’ll have something
to write about. but I stay away from the whore who can’t tell
the difference between sex & rape, because every fuck is a
mean fuck to her.

I drop the female half of this tragic romance into two convenient
catalogs: the dames get the black cover, the red one goes to the
dolls, they’re much more dangerous. I don’t even have to spell it
out for ‘em, ‘cause the dames couldn’t excavate pedigree from
a dictionary & the dolls know their own names.

every doll figures she’s shady enough to run for mayor of Sin City.
she’ll get my vote, too, as long as she can take a good spanking.

when I date a dame, we hop a bus to a downbeat divebar in the
library district for schnapps & an Irish coffee chaser. it stiffens us
up for an evening of X-rated opera in the members-only room of
a porn shop, where they keep the really dirty stuff. I’ll even write
her an ode to prostitutes, she’ll be so impressed she’ll hang it on
her reading list. she’ll know I’m the cock of the walk by the way
I shanghai the Bard of Avon into my literary aspirations.

but a Doll gets the first class rock&roll. she can wear her finest
2nd-hand rose regalia, & I’ll escort her to the premier of my latest
pulp absurdity.

my sad film noir only plays in seedy flop houses just off the road
less traveled, but don’t come looking for logic, or morals, or even
a loose plot.

I don’t need Shakespeare’s fancy aesthetics, either,
as long as there is sex & violence…


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