Waste Not, Want Not (by Rebecca Chasteen)

Sex

is so tricky;

It’s so easy

to get someone to love

how you look in their bed.

It’s so easy to

be wanted

and ride that high

unaware

there’s no where to land

unaware

what changed while you were up there.

It’s so hard to tell

when words are as real as they can be

and when they’re bargains for heavy breaths

(or the heavy breaths, bargains for words- we all know how that works).

It’s hard to tell

when everyone’s on the same page

and when

by some slight of had

the page turns-

burns

love and lust

separate

instead of having them become one

movement

all in the same.

People lie and say

it doesn’t matter, no strings attached.

Never believe that.

Sex has never been

clean cut.

There has never been

“just a fuck”.

Bodies are driven, have motives, have spirits-

everything means something.

So

it should be a rule-

we have to love the ones we fuck,

no matter what.

And we have to trust the ones we love-

Isn’t that equation clear enough?

Take the guess work out of it.

Make it count.

We should demand to refuse

those

so bent on wreckage-

so concerned only with

their moment.

Sex should be fun

as much as is it should be love.

Make it matter (because it already does).

Waste no

body’s

offering.

Minimize nothing

with manipulation or make believe.

We owe our lovers all the honesty we’ve got

(and we should love the ones we fuck).

Waste no

heart’s efforts

with tricks and games

(where not everyone’s a player, but everyone gets played).

Waste not-

bodies or hearts

or want not-

right from the start.

• Люси Лью (Lucy Liu)