If You're Really, Really Bored . . .

[ursula]

. . . You can go read my poetry and vote on which ones I should submit to the English department's contest.

Alternatively, you can vote on which ones you hate. I will probably agree with your criticism.

Comments

[ursula]

I hesitate to clarify too much . . . I'm not sure how the screaming-in-the-shower part works for an uninitiated reader now that I've changed it from "We want the fourth of us," which sounded better but produced unnecessarily labyrinthine interpretations. I do like the ambiguity between "We want someone to scream at us" and "We want someone to scream because he's having sex."

The curls are leaves, but also lushness, and waste. I think I read less of the age symbolism than you do, and more about claustrophobia vs. freedom. (Hothouse plants?)

My English prof got two couples out of this poem, which I find hilarious, but also somewhat odd in that it really ought to be about *not* having sex.