Unmoved

 
I am not interested in your poems about masturbation
Honestly. What’s between you and your fingers should stay there
I don’t care to share how you feel when you come
when you’re coming

I am about as fascinated in your bodily functions
as I am in the inner workings of hypertext transfer protocol
or your spirituality
or porn

The way you stretch your red-slicked mouth
to emphasise each syllable of
clit – or – is
makes me sick

With your asymmetric hair and right-on boots,
reciting from heart, heavy on the pathos
heavy on the poor me, poor girlie dressed woman
leaves me unmoved

I take no pleasure from your self pleasure
your shock does not shock me
I am not interested in you at all
just me.
 

Kate Dempsey

Kate Dempsey is an English poet living in Ireland where her poetry and prose are widely published. She won the Plough Prize for a short poem and was shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Her dinky poetry book Some Poems was published in 2011 by The Moth Editions. She is a member of the fabulous Poetry Divas @PoetryDivas, a glittery collective of women poets. She blogs at emergingwriter.blogspot.com.

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