The Poetry
The Mistress On His Mind
By Camille Iman Woods
Warning: Sexually explicit
He stopped me one day
and talked to me, really talked to me
he stimulated my mind and caressed my thoughts as
he talked to me
and we walked towards the library
as he caressed my thoughts
my thoughts get so lonely that they thought,
he was the one as soon as he touched
it had been a while since I had the pleasure
of shared intellect
and I was eager
eager to ask him to make love
to my intellect
more often
so
much
more
often
In my mind
His ideas were strong like black coffee
hard like baseball bats
and long like run on sentences
and I liked it, yes, our conversations
were my
orgasm
I climaxed
and wondered if he was single, you know
really single
he was married
and he told me that we couldn’t talk anymore because he loved my mind
more than his wife’s
because he had touched my mind and couldn’t stand to cheat
even in conversation
He said He didn’t know
this sort of pleasure existed
when he married her and if he did, well. . .
that doesn’t matter
But,
I wouldn’t have minded being his mind’s mistress
second to his wife but first to his thoughts
Oh, how I am eager to have the pleasure
of shared intellect
the kind of dopamine surge that only comes from studying a dopamine surge
the kind of liberation that comes from learning liberalism
Yes,
I was his kind
I miss the straddling of his gray matter
and his thoughts strong like black coffee
hard like baseball bats
long like run on sentences
Intellectuals get lonely too you know,
Sitting with all these pages isn’t good for a virgin mind
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