JES GOOD FRIENDS? A Satire about Intimacy IMAGE: Two views of a beautiful nude woman along with a lot of digital noise. It's true I sleep with her sometimez & we're intimate now 'n then butt there's no need ta worrie – most of duh time we're jes good friends. Yeah, I find her attractive & I luv duh smoothness ah her skin butt our relationship 's more err less spiritual – moist of duh taime we're jes friendzzz. Sure, every so uften we get intimate & cumin in 'er feels sooooo goooood butt jenerr-ly supeakingu my interest izz intellectual – should anyone doubt the two ah us are jes' just fur-ends :=? Miok: (frowning) Whoever wrote this is an utter scoundrel! Chris: (nodding) The poem is cheap in every sense of the word. It ignores the blatant contradictions between standard social norms and the author's oversized libidio. Tim: Well, I regard this as self-satire! There's plenty to suggest that the writer realizes he's a fool. Cantara: Indeed. Aren't only fools are capable of falling in love? ===================================================================================== from Heart Scenes: Emotional Landscapes via Art, Poetry, & Prose by T Newfields Summary: A lampoon about platonic friendships and the slippery tides of passion. Keywords: passionate pasticcios, sensual spoofs, slinky squibs Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2010 in Tokyo, Japan ☆ Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/HeartScenes/dark.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/HeartScenes/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/HeartScenes/fcolors.htm