Advancement

I eschew sex.

Firmly entrenched
now in middle age
I have found the act
wanting, boring

the physicality dull,
unimaginative
old hat

Sex
has lost its interest
in me

shunning sex,
I have discovered
making love

It is the side effect of
experience
the residue of having
love, lost, found

I am the artist
who has traded Play-Doh
for the potter’s wheel

– Mark Lucker