Let's Not Have Sex
Let’s go to bed and not have sex.
So often, hope restored,
I’ve rolled you over in my arms,
enticing you with all my charms,
while you repelled my ‘wandering palms’
and looked a little bored.
Let’s go to bed and not have sex.
Perhaps a little natter
would help to put you in the mood
for doing something rather lewd,
or was that glance so misconstrued?
It really doesn’t matter.
Let’s go to bed and not have sex.
How about a whisky?
We’ll settle down and read our books
and turn our backs and not share looks
but maybe as the breakfast cooks
you might start feeling frisky?
Let’s go to bed and not have sex.
I’ve noticed you keep yawning.
You’ve got a headache, period’s due,
you’re under stress, too much to do,
you simply must go to the loo
but, maybe in the morning?
Let’s go to bed and not have sex.
It’s hard to change old habits.
But I recall, or so it seems,
a time when we ... or were they dreams?
No. Memory stands up and screams
we used to fuck like rabbits.
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