Explaining Role Playing to a Friend with Benefits
Make sure your biological history
is scrubbed hard the night before.
Make sure the bodies wearing our names
slip easily in and out of themselves,
like a sweater no longer needed to warm
our shivering search for touch.
Make sure you’re ready for sexual tension
like a demolition ball on the end of a crane.
Make sure you’re full as a soldier’s flask,
easy to drink and pass around.
Make sure they call you Daddy.
There’s power from where you came.
Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, North American Review and more. His work is forthcoming in The Meadow, The Chiron Review, Nine Mile Magazine, New Plains Review, and Steam Ticket Journal. His book, “Waxing the Dents,” is from Brick Road Poetry Press.
