What should that matter? Why pretend
Love must accompany erection?
This is a momentary affection,
A curiosity bound to end,
Which as good-humored muscle may
Against the muscle try its strength
—Exhausted into sleep at length—
And will not last long into day.
[Thom Gunn {1929-2004} from 'Modes of Pleasure II', in Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry by William Logan]
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