Sex

Sex in a sentence
by Marissa Glover

Sex

is a lonely word.
Warning us we will not last,
ex is part of the spelling.

Ex-lovers, ex-friends, ex-together,
sex is the punctuation at the end
of our sentence –

a question mark your exit answers,
an exclamation point
that shuts the book of our story.

Sex should be misspelled.


Marissa Glover is a teacher and writer who shares her thoughts more than necessary, which she considers a form of charitable giving. If it counted as a tax deduction, she’d be rich. Her poetry was recently anthologized in Persona Non Grata by Fly on the Wall Press and published at Three Drops from a Cauldron, Ghost City ReviewThe Coil, New Verse News, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Collective Unrest. Follow her on Twitter @_MarissaGlover_.

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