PORNOTICA

I met a female writer

who with enthusiasm claimed

her genre was erotica…

“Oooh!” I said amused,

“You write pornotica,”

To my own ears I sounded

completely hypocritical

but her response

was worse than mine.

“No I don’t write porn”, she said

“I only write about tenderness in bed.

I write erotica

to warm people

who are as frigid as Antartica

but porn is totally bad”

she with disgust said.

“Porn wrecks and damages

Children and creates premature

sexualisation, when immature;

with negative body images

an unhealthy idea emerges

about human relationships

while erotica is all about romance,

love, tenderness and sweet relationships

but of course they all end and commence

with getting into someone’s bed and head”

I looked at her slightly amused

A liberated woman so confused

It was like she was saying beer is better

than drinking harsh and hard liquor

was what she appeared to be saying

Maybe, for her it was better

But to me they are all the same

For dirt disguised as beauty

will continue to remain dirt

and can never replace beauty

that all true creators wrote