Charmed, I'm Sure: One Hundred Sex Poems

By D. L. Forbes

I grew up in a particularly primitive era and society – the United Kingdom in the 1950's and 60's – which deemed it imperative that the moors of archaic religions and laws of the State should control the private and consensual sexual activity of the adult population.
As a young lad, I wondered why most adults were so concerned and fidgety about what other adults did sexually in private, and I knew instinctively, as the young often believe they do, that many of the conventions and laws that adults perpetrate were simply a load of old malarkey.
I decided that when and if I made it to puberty and beyond, I would ignore all such specious and aberrant strictures and work out the precepts of my own life and my own sexuality for myself, which I did, and do, and here in these poems is a small chunk of that.
These poems span a period of over forty years, and are not presented chronologically, but are those that drew my interest or a specific remembrance, and taken randomly from many note and sketchbooks, as a rambling sampler.
These poems are of sexual content, often explicitly so, and are intended for adult readers, ideally by those who do not feel obliged to excoriate sexuality not their own.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543986365

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Introduction

I grew up in a particularly primitive era and society – the United Kingdom in the 1950’s and 60’s – which deemed it imperative that the moors of archaic religions and laws of the State should control the private and consensual sexual activity of the adult population.

As a young lad, I wondered why most adults were so concerned and fidgety about what other adults did sexually in private, and I knew instinctively, as the young often believe they do, that many of the conventions and laws that adults perpetrate were simply a load of old malarkey.

I decided that when and if I made it to puberty and beyond, I would ignore all such specious and aberrant strictures and work out the precepts of my own life and my own sexuality for myself, which I did, and do, and here in these poems is a small chunk of that.

These poems span a period of over forty years, and are not presented chronologically, but are those that drew my interest or a specific remembrance, and taken randomly from many note and sketchbooks, as a rambling sampler.

These poems are of sexual content, often explicitly so, and are intended for adult readers, ideally by those who do not feel obliged to excoriate sexuality not their own.

D. L. Forbes – 2019

ALSO BY D. L. FORBES

SAXONFORD

VOLUME ONE

WINTER INTO SUMMER

Fiction

SAXONFORD

VOLUME TWO

SUMMER INTO WINTER

Fiction

CHILDREN OF SYCORAX

Fiction/Biography

LIFE THREATENING POETRY ACROSS AMERICA

ONE HUNDRED ONE DOLLAR POEMS

The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number One

UMLUNGU

THE WHITE SCUM THAT FLOATS IN THE SURF

ONE HUNDRED EVERYDAY POEMS

The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Two

YID UN GOY YINGL

Fiction/Biography/

GENTILE AND JEW BOYS

ONE HUNDRED POEMS FOR SHEM

The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Three

ROUGH FLUFF

ONE HUNDRED LOVE POEMS

The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Four

CHARMED, I’M SURE

ONE HUNDRED SEXUAL POEMS

The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Five

WITTGENSTEIN’S SON

&

U. G. KRISHNAMURTI

DUCKS OR RABBITS

Autobiography/Biography

CAT GOT MY BRAIN

ONE HUNDRED MAD POEMS

The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Six

THREE PLAYS

I. BABY

II. RUNS IN THE FAMILY

III. LAND’S END

For those who know exactly what they like

and for those who are not so sure.

&

To the many who came and went

And to the few who stuck.

CHARMED, I’M SURE

Contents

Prologue

1. Ass-Ehrenberg

2. Pride of Our Alley

3. Getting to Yes

4. Voice of The Lord Verses You

5. X. My Policeman Friend – Sexual Jealousy

6. Out from the Bushes

7. Trans’

8. Wanking the Alsatian

9. Booth

10. In Bed with Kafka and Self

11. Godhead

12. Full Moon Flossing

13. Life Plan Plus

14. A Second-Hand Life

15. Bulls and Bears

16. Bog Osmosis

17. Life is Not a Fun Blog

18. Suicide Sex

19. Pet Urine

20. Murderous

21. Grindly Gibbon’s-Ass in Mauves and Blue

22. Incest Thuggery Buggery

23. Full Moon

24. Tempest in My Pants

25. The Client

26. Veggie Meat Lust

27. Most Happy Death

28. Sigh for You

29. He Could Scream

30. Mind Chat Before Sleep

31. Frequent Fucking Miles

32. Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985)

33. No Significance

34. Romantic Realism

35. XI. My Policeman Friend – In and Out of Uniform

36. Traces of Bliss

37. Pukka That Arse Wallah

38. Posthumous Note and Reply

39. Repeated Mistake

40. Cowboy in Pink

41. Timing

42. No Limits Play

43. A Bloomsbury Moment

44. Five Ages of Fuck

45. Well-Being in An Alley

46. Rascal

47. Your Soap Opera Life

48. Aldo and Cadzo in Milano

49. Fuck-a-Lot

50. When He is Dead and Gone

51. The Pluggers and the Plugged

52. Waiting for Dick

53. Good Old Doom Days

54. Pays to Advertise

55. Thy Bodily Excrescences

56. My Needs Are One

57. No Return

58.