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A Selection of Contemporary Confessional Poetry ? Poems by Tony Hoagland ? ? ? Adam and Eve I wanted to punch her right in the mouth and thats the truth. After all, we had gotten from the station of the flickering glances to the station of the hungry mouths, from the shoreline of skirts and faded jeans to the ocean of unencumbered skin, from the perilous mountaintop of the apartment steps to the sanctified valley of the bed-- the candle fluttering upon the dresser top, its little yellow blade sending up its whiff of waxy smoke, and I could smell her readiness like a dank cloud above a field, when at the crucial moment, the all-important moment, the moment standing at attention, she held her milk white hand agitatedly over the entrance to her body and said No, and my brain burst into flame. If I couldnt sink myself in her like a dark spur or dissolve into her like a clod thrown in a river, can I go all the way in the saying, and say I wanted to punch her right in the face? Am I allowed to say that, that I wanted to punch her right in her soft face? Or is the saying just another instance of rapaciousness, just another way of doing what I wanted then, by saying it? Is a man just an animal, and is a woman not an animal? Is the name of the animal power? Is it true that the man wishes to see the woman hurt with her own pleasure and the woman wishes to see the expression on the mans face of someone falling from great height, that the woman thrills with the power of her weakness and the man is astonished by the weakness of his power? Is the sexual chase a hunt where the animal inside drags the human down into a jungle made of vowels, hormonal undergrowth of sweat and hair, or is this an obsolete idea lodged like a fossil in the brain of the ape who lives inside the man? Can the fossil be surgically removed or dissolved, or redesigned so the man can be a human being, like a woman? Does the woman see the man as a house where she might live in safety, and do

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