BY DAVIDMURRAYLAW@GMAIL.COM

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Afraid to be Naked​

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Male Nude, Edgar Degas, 1856

Metropolitan museum of Fine Arts

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/9-male-nude-edgar-degas.html

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I fear that on disrobing me
you will find only straw and sawdust
but I have a game plan

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I will start with the soles of your feet
softening them, then rubbing your toes
until they radiate in the shadows

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I will then gravitate towards your knees
doing passionately whatever it is
that one does with these

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next come your lobes
and exciting but intriguing prospect
 

and then your ears 

they remind me of camels

​designed by a riot of bureaucrats
with no sense of design

or direction

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what I am saying
is that I would approach your beauty
with stealth and determination

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removing one veil at a time
until you are as vulnerable
as a newborn baby

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only then would I undress

 

2014

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