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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN
First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans
Last Line: Until it melts.
Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl
Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy
First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans
Last Line: Until it melts.
Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl
Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy
First of all she eats jellybeans,
a pile of about seven
different colors in her hand.
To get in the mood. He will come
home soon, any day now. She lies
down, no music, the sweetness
of jelly beans in her teeth
like rubber sugar, she licks her fingers—
I touch myself to find him she
thinks of faceless men who have his face
te quiero, one of them says. It is sweet
to come by imagining coming,
sweeter still to think of him
sucking the sweet swollen bean
between her legs
until it melts.
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