{"id":78,"date":"2015-09-25T03:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T03:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/staging\/?p=78"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:00:06","slug":"colleen-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/colleen-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleen Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuntipotent<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019m tired of being cliticized
\ncut off from a womb of feeling
\nand accused of being frigid<\/p>\n

I want more than my clit flicked
\nas if it were a fly
\n<\/span>or poked and pushed like the panic button
\n<\/span>quick uncontrolled jabs lacking
\n<\/span>a vision of what is turned on<\/span><\/p>\n

I want a stroke, a touch,
\na word whispered along my flesh
\na mind and body participatory event for two
\nnot the clinical technician\u2019s observation
\npoint of a test under way<\/p>\n

I\u2019m tired of explaining my cunt handling
\ninstruction book lessons
\nand then find them unheeded
\nin a layman\u2019s interpretation<\/p>\n

I want my vagina to be fondled
\nnot prodded as if it were a hole to be plugged
\nblocking emotion and senses
\nthat well from within
\nenough to slake any burning blade<\/p>\n

I want to make love
\nand if not that then the love
\nof making out not making off
\nwith a disembodied feeling
\nor an unfeeling body<\/p>\n

I want sex to be a making
\nof two beings working as one
\nsatisfying, caressing
\ncaring for all the needs of two
\na feeling motion done together<\/p>\n

Cremating Love\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He thinks she is asleep
\nslumbering like soft wood
\nHis arm moves rhythmically
\nin the blanketing night<\/p>\n

In times that feel so distant
\naged like the dried and shriveled crevice
\nbetween her legs
\nshe wanted and longed for his touch<\/p>\n

He claimed he needed her
\nbut some secret abhorrence
\nrecoiled his fingers
\nfrom her skin\u2019s suppleness<\/p>\n

She burned\u2014consumption
\ndried waterfall tears, frustrated sweat
\nHe could not see the need
\nnor feel the embers glowing deep<\/p>\n

He claimed celibate love
\ndenying his own flesh
\nfrom her as she dissipated
\nconsumed by her love<\/p>\n

She hears the dry rasp
\nskin on skin
\nA beat to still her heart
\nnot touch her skin<\/p>\n

She turns to ash
\nThe cavern
\nwill soon suck her in
\nas she lies sleepless
\ncold
\nalone.\u00a0<\/strong>
\n<\/p>\n

Oh You!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, you beautiful doll
\nyou great big beautiful doll
\nyou\u2019re a penthouse, playboy icon
\nsweet enough to give the boys a hard on
\nwith your airbrushed limbs in Vogue
\nand skin of face-lift elastic
\nrocket breasts as smooth as silicon
\nyou\u2019re the genuine plastic beauty doll<\/p>\n

Oh,<\/p>\n

you\u2019re such a doll
\neveryone wants to be just like you
\na regular dress up, pink prom, prissy prim
\nbarbie doll<\/p>\n

oh, honey baby doll, you\u2019re my pliable
\nchatty Kathy doll
\na sexy rubber, blow-up doll
\nyou beautiful, beautiful doll<\/p>\n

Doll, they say we can\u2019t live without you
\nin splatter films or skin flicks
\nwith bloody legs and arms askew
\nirresistible you\u2019re dressed to kill
\ncream dream such a scream
\nto be cleaved and raped
\nand gashed and reamed
\na cut up regular doll<\/p>\n

But,<\/p>\n

you\u2019re just a doll!
\na great big beautiful doll
\nlet me wrap your arms about me
\nyou\u2019re unreal, not taken seriously
\nthere\u2019s no harm in make-believe
\nyou really know just how to please<\/p>\n

oh, oh, oh, oh!<\/p>\n

oh you beautiful doll\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Come and Go\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

i\u2019ll make you happy
\nhe smiles, pats her breast
\ngrabs the good wine
\nsloshes it into a plastic glass
\ngulps a fish-gasping-gulp
\nclutches the flaccid pizza
\nfalling over his hand
\npushes it into her mouth
\nthis is his nice dinner
\nhis night out<\/p>\n

he peels out of his clothes
\nnot quite looking at his watch
\nand crawls on the hotel bed
\nsocks on
\nbatting his organ until it stiffens
\nhe taps her breast
\nlips suction up a kiss
\nare you happy
\nshe smiles at the mirror upon the wall<\/p>\n

teeth bite her breast
\nbruise the nipple
\nhe rolls on top
\npushes-in-jerks-twice-stiffens
\ndead weight shifts
\nhe runs to wash away the deed
\nback in seconds<\/p>\n

for seconds
\nand his money\u2019s worth
\nhe shovels food into her mouth
\npats her breast
\nand gulps his wine
\nbites her nipple
\nand says i\u2019ll take my time this time
\nwhat do you like
\nshe looks to the bright bare bulb
\ni like what you like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cuntipotent<\/strong>
\n I\u2019m tired of being cliticized
\ncut off from a womb of feeling
\nand accused of being frigid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}