The End of It
Kim Addonizio

I have foresworn desire.
 I am become as a stink¹ bug².
 Yea verily I am a roly poly.
 No more for me the hanky panky（把戏，花招） .
 I neither lick nor moan.
 I neither swallow nor spit.
 I'm through with all that.
 Moonlight on the ocean
 is as soap scum（皂垢） to me now.
 Beavers of love,
 build not your lodges³ in my waters.
 Snails quit sliming your kisses
 over the cabbages.
 I have delivered up my clit
 to be disarticulated.
 Now I'm going to be very quiet
 and wait for that little marble squirrel
 set among the tomato vines
 to run away.