The Black Napkin Volume 1 Issue 4 | Page 15

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Can you be both the exhibionist and

the voyeur? (myfreecams votes yes)

made sixty two dollars

sprawled across

my tangled Star Wars sheets

in the little blue light of my laptop

baring whatever self i have left

for strangers

who feel entitled to those scraps,

those starved dogs hounding

the dinner table

i strip myself for you

down to stained bone

baring fragile blood vessels

that exact kind of emotional

exhibitionism you have become

a purveyor of

as i place my fingers

between my legs

it feels awfully like slamming

car doors shut

on brittle bone

the chat room

is filled with

faster, baby

harder, baby

you’re so hot, baby

and i know i shouldn’t like it

but it feels a lot like

losing my virginity

in a parking lot

on one of those

summer nights

where i can almost confuse

the light pollution orange

glow of the sky for

something beautiful