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~greg wrote:I think there's a subliminal thingy going on in the poem.

to see how space junk
differed from satellite

-- some of the men being "space junk"
and others being "satellites".
...
That is to say, you swing wildly from dising, to deference,
with nothing in between. And that's being too much dependent.

You are a beautiful sensitive intelligent woman.
You know more than 9 out of 10 men.
And Hillary has liberated you. So you don't have to care
anymore what men think or say or "joke" about women
at work or school. They are just "stars" who are "too nervous".
You know it perfectly well that that's all that's at the root of the evil.
So act like you know it.

The trouble, my dear Greg, is that I reallyreallyreally like men.

One man wrote of Salome, "There was something terrifying
about her embrace. Looking at you with her radiant blue eyes,
she would say, 'The reception of the semen is for me the height of ecstasy.'
And she had an insatiable appetite for it. She was completely amoral
... a vampire." The Swedish psychotherapist Poul Bjerre, one of her
later conquests, wrote, "'I think Nietzsche was right when he said
that Lou was a thoroughly evil woman. Evil however in the Goethian
sense: evil that produces good. . . .She may have destroyed lives
and marriages but her presence was exciting."

The two emotions that almost every male felt in the presence
of Lou Andreas-Salome were confusion and excitement—the two
prerequisite feelings for any successful seduction. People were
intoxicated by her strange mix of the masculine and the feminine;
she was beautiful, with a radiant smile and a graceful, flirtatious manner,
but her independence and her intensely analytical nature made her
seem oddly male. This ambiguity was expressed in her eyes,
which were both coquettish and probing. It was confusion
that kept men interested and curious: no other woman was like this.
They wanted to know more. The excitement stemmed from her ability
to stir up repressed desires. She was a complete nonconformist,
and to be involved with her was to break all kinds of taboos.
Her masculinity made the relationship seem vaguely homosexual;
her slightly cruel, slightly domineering streak could stir up masochistic
yearnings, as it did in Nietzsche. Salome radiated a forbidden sexuality.
Her powerful effect on men—the lifelong infatuations, the suicides
(there were several), the periods of intense creativity, the descriptions
of her as a vampire or a devil—attest to the obscure depths
of the psyche that she was able to reach and disturb.
...

I reallyreallyreally like men.

Well, I think mostly a mid-soldier was...

mat james wrote:

I reallyreallyreally like men.

or, I reallyreallyreally like (the attention I get from) men.

Matj

Well, I think mostly a mid-soldier was...

rats.
i thought it was going to be something filthy