Poetry: Sex - a poem about cake but not really

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The background to this poem: I was on a train and I overheard an elderly man comment to his wife that some couples have sex every day. The reason, she replied, that they didn't was because she liked to have something special to look forward to - rather than its becoming a daily chore. That's what this poem is about - it's just a take on their conversation


SEX


Little Tommy loved cake so much
he'd dream, at night, of becoming a baker.
That way he could eat cake
(chocolate was his favourite)
every day. Little James looked forward to special occasions because his mum would bake lemon sponge, and he thought that that was a nice treat. He dreamt of becoming a goal keeper for United.

(Forget the problems of class
and environmental influence)
Little Tommy,
through sheer chocolate-driven effort
opened, at nineteen,
The Little Tommy Bakery --
which was ironic,
because he gave up eating cakes,
not because he was Big Tommy now,
but because he was sick of the taste
of anything sweet. Little James grew up to become (forget the problems of society and random chaos) a prison warden in Manchester. He still looks forward to his mum's lemon sponge -- which is nice, because she still loves baking for him.

(Selected for publication March 1st 2005 The Persistent Mirage)

This video created and narrated by Alan David Pritchard using PowerPoint 2010

Music: Damsels and Dames by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"

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[MrAlanDavidPritchard]

was trying to capture the two points of view as per the conversation i overheard (see notes under 'show more' above.

[Larryis16]

gaah i didn't get it at all :(

[tomitstube]

interesting, a metaphor for 'too much of a good thing..." in the literal sense there's tantric sex, which would be too much for most, and the opposite of that is austere religions that make sex dirty. i think moderation is still the key, no?

[imlippy75]

Okay,I didnt get it either till I read the further info,now I know where you were going with it-It's good ;-)

Everyone loves cake....right........lol

[7lizet]

so to enjoy sex you have not do it to much otherwise you get sick of the taste of it????