Sometimes poems come from your imagination. This poem comes from my own personal experience, which I think most middle-aged or older people can identify with. Enjoy!

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   It's true.

   Sex, like everything, alters as you age.

   When young, your thoughts turned to

   oils, lotions, positions ad infinitum.

   Now it's different.

   To get my wife really in the mood,

   I wash the dishes, vacuum, do the laundry,

   and for the piece de resistance,

   I clean the bathroom, including the grout.

   Don't laugh!

   The above are guaranteed

   to give your lover heart palpitations,

   sweaty palms, and a desire to perform

   a wonderful act of oral stimulation

   that was once illegal in all 50 states.

   And even though,

   according to that amateur philologist

   and former president,

   it's not actually sex,

   when it leaves you smiling,

   why quibble?

Authors Website: http://kwheatcroft.blogspot.com/

Authors Bio:

I blog at "Left-Wing Tex" from beautiful Fort Worth, Texas. Here I am a retired English-as-a-Second Language teacher.
I have had poems published in a number of venues, including California Quarterly, Borderlands, The Texas Observer, redriverreview.com, Illya's Honey, Oakbend Review, and two anthologies of Texas poetry. Besides that, my essays have appeared in The Texas Observer, San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Peace Times,Still Crazy and Fort Worth Weekly. Finally, stories of mine have been published in Lynx Eye, Hardboiled, and the on-line literary journals: Verdad, Scrivener's Pen, SouthLit.com, Amarillo Bay, and The Write Room. My story, Fire in Galveston was one of four runner-ups for the 2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest.