clorox bleach

the twin boys had been having sex with each other
longer than they could remember.
perhaps they'd first sucked each other's dicks
inside their mother's womb.
they'd grown up sexy slender and gorgeous, and
all through high school they'd
done it: had secret sex with each other.
and, all through college,
it had been easy since they
were roommates in the dorm, and
then, in their own apartment.
they'd never "cheated" on each other,
never had sex with anyone else.
sometimes, after a particularly
tough academic week in college,
exam week for example,
well, the weekend following
that, they spent that entire
weekend in bed, "recuperating
thru recreation," having every
kind of sex with each other
that they'd ever had, and adding
in a couple more variations, as well,
"for extra fun."
**
then,
after college, they got
jobs in the same city,
and lived together,
and continued having sex
with each other all the time,
until, one day, seemingly
out of the blue,
one of the twins
said it should stop.
it was "just wrong."
they had a brief discussion,
and,
it was decided that they
would continue living together,
but would no longer have
sex with each other.
**
their world turned dark
and stormy. alone in
their now-separate beds, they cried
themselves to sleep nearly
every night.
**
finally, the twin who
had initiated the "no-sex" rule
moved out,
and left his twin brother all
alone.
**
as the century ended, and
trees everywhere began dying
of intense and
vicious insect infestations,
the sexy twin boys
continued their lives alone,
full of shame,
confused about the
guilt, lonely for
each other's arms, dicks,
asses,
the taste of each other's cum.
**
finally,
when they both thought everything
looked pretty much hopeless,
one weekend
they had a major "slip-up"
in the shower of their suite in
a major hotel. after, their
eyes shining like
four super-nova stars,
they said
to each other, and quietly, too,
just to heck with everything,
and moved back in together,
and
quietly lived,
life.

--Carl Miller Daniels (This poem also appears in my book Saline, published by Interior Noise Press in 2014.)