Liberation?

by Deepa Rajan

It feels so so so good

to be liberated.

Who needs romance when

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I can have a nice fuck

without the extra effort,

without the dinners and flowers,

without the weight of obligation.

It’s just a body:

skin and bones and genitals,

a hole or two or three.

In the midst of carnal rapture

it’s hard to remember the person,

but that’s alright, I like things casual.

I feel sorry for the shackled folks

who still think that the joining of bodies

is some Grand Event.

No. Practically speaking

it’s no more special than

fun yoga or a

sweaty tennis match or a

pleasurable Handshake.

At last, I feel so free -

Sex means nothing to me.

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Deepa Rajan

Deepa Rajan is a scientist and writer living in San Francisco. She holds a PhD in Cell Biology from the University of California, San Francisco. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The B’K Magazine, Synapse, Toil and Trouble Lit Mag, Rough Diamond Poetry, The Poet Heroic, Suburban Witchcraft Mag, and Corporeal. Some of her musings and discoveries are on X: @DeepaHRajan