My Confession

So I must make a confession... I absolutely love poems, lyrics, any form of art actually that is really really raunchy. I don't know why exactly but I guess it would have to do with the fact that I am quite possibly one of the tiniest, whitest girls I have ever known and I think it is funny to see people's reactions when they realize that the music that is blaring from my headphones is Eminem or Dr. Dre...

Having said this, one of my favourite works we read this J Term was Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds! Even the title was extremely intriguing to me before reading it and I was completely satisfied after reading it.

How do they do it? That's a good question.. how do people have sex without love? Today's society is completely desensitized to the sexual things in life, as we had talked about today during the discussion about Tumblr.

I love love love tumblr and would link you to my personal tumblr but that would just be a poor decision on my part, so I won't.. sorry! But I definitely agree with what was said that tumblr is waaay out there in terms of the content.. so. much. porn.

I have never been exposed to too much porn other than that seen on tumblr really, because it just seems stupid and dirty to me, but I cannot deny that sex is something that kind of fascinates me, which is probably why I listen to some of the dirtiest music and find Eminem's raunchiest lyrics to be his most clever. Sex sells, and whenever I am exposed to a song, show, or advertisement that exploits sex I am totally sold.

Now back to the poem...

The imagery in this poem is really what hooked me in, the ice skaters and the gliding painted a crystal clear picture of two people in a heated embrace and although I feel a bit awkward typing this and thinking about my professor and possibly some of my classmates reading this I can't deny that this poem really sticks out to me. I can perfectly imagine the couple that Olds describes in this poem and cannot help but really consider what Olds is asking in this poem. How do they do it? How do they come to the come to the come - yet at the end of the day they are as alone as they were before they started. It's sad really to think about the two people included in this, how alone Olds describes them despite the seeming great time they are having. Without love sex is just sex - nothing more. That doesn't stop these people, and a lot more people, from participating in sex without love.

I love the "climax" of the poem - come to the come to the come. It stuck out to me almost as lyrical, just like those Eminem and 50 cent songs I love so dearly. I felt this line was extremely clever of Olds, just like I find many rap lyrics to be very clever. Now, obviously, Eminem is a much much dirtier lyricist than Olds but I still find his dirty lyrics to be just as clever (perhaps even a bit more clever.. but that's just me) as Old's climax in "Sex Without Love". A particular line from a song that Eminem is featured in comes to mind when I think of clever dirty lyrics and I was so close to writing it out but I thought about the lyrics and I just can't so I will link the song and you can listen as your leisure.

The part of the song that I am referring to is at 2:20 so feel free to skip to that if you want to hear the lyrics I am referring to . I don't know why but I find Eminem's part in this song so very clever and although very dirty I cannot help but giggle ever ytime I listen to this song.. just like I giggle every time I read "come to the come to the come".

Ok, I'm done being juvenile.

Good luck to all on the final!

Cat