Safe Sex
If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident
they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;
if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire
only the tribute of another's cry; if they employ each other
as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel—
then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,
no frenzy, no hurled words of permanent humiliation,
no trembling days, no vomit at midnight, no repeated
apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond's edge
Donald Hall
The first time I read this, I got the main point about disconnecting your emotions from a person so that you don't feel pain and anguish of betrayal or separation. Then after that, the other times I read it I began to notice literary techniques. At about the fifth reading though (and this may be wrong) but I got something strange from it. It wasn't a device, or maybe it was I'm not sure; but I received this message about love. About how without the troubles and sometimes feeling of loss and pain, it just isn't worth it. Sure, your emotions are safe from harm, but the relationship is hollow and empty.
Then I read it a few more times and realized I passed the seven.
Then I read it a few more times and realized I passed the seven.
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