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ReplyTo a comment on A Perfectly Reasonable Question by baughworm.

Robert K Foster9 Jun 2003

his knobby hands riding your hips?

I'm confused by this image,

like a coin operated horse at the supermarket?
that implies a climbing on, straddling motion, which confuses me, wouldn't the woman be straddling? Not the man's hands...
I'm confused.

I like the poem, but I am confused.