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What is Romance and Intimacy in 2007?
Tanisha Alexander
AKA
Phenomenally
A man asked me this
I was stumped
And upset because I couldn’t answer him?
I thought to myself
It’s saying you will come over
And you do
So I’m happy
Even though it’s 11 at night
Nooo
It’s saying I’mma call you after work
But I don’t hear from you until after 9
Nooo
Its Lets go to a movie
But oh
Change of plans
Lets watch this DVD
At my place
On my couch
So I can feel on you
Nooo
It’s actually having a conversation
Before doing the do
Noo
What the hell is it
Obviously it hasn’t shown its presence around me
I don’t know Intimacy
And who the hell is romance?
Is that the new couple I met at the gym?
Or maybe the zoo
Or are they related to Kim
Anyway, I don’t know them
Or I’m having a damn hard time remembering
Who they are
Where did they came from
Or why they came in the first place
I don’t know who’s to blame
For their disappearance
People are immune to it
Like the little girls
Receiving the vaccine for the Human Papilloma Virus
I know who killed it
It was rough sex
The porn industry
TV
Sexual demeaning rap music
Booty calls
And
Lowered standards
But fuck all of that
Cuz I still don’t know
What
Romance
Or Intimacy
Means