Stripped Down...

Writing is like getting naked in public…
How?
Well…check this out…
Most of us look better clothed…
We can hide so much with our control-top…
Panty hose and well cut outfits…
However…
When we strip down to nothing…
It’s all there for the looking…
Writing is the same way…
Once that book is out there…
Readers assume they know us…
That they can see us naked…
She got to be like that…
She wrote about it…
I have danced on the edge with my books…
I touch on topics…
Push the envelope…
I have written about…
Open marriages…
Un-requited love…
Women-who-love-women…
Interracial preferences…
You name it…
I will claim it…
I try to do it in a way that just is…
Not to titillate…
But to communicate…
Because my world is so large…
I know all of these people…
But that doesn’t stop the questions…
Is that you?
Are you her?
Do you?
Have you ever?
Why does it matter?
It doesn’t to me…
I just want you to think…
Smile…
Cry…
Gasp…
Say “Damn…no she didn’t, did she?
Yes she did…and she will again…
acVernon Menchan
Cinnamon’s Universe…April 21, 2007