of: Afters ^

       O
  everyone
         halt your objections!

     I am as helpless to
  This
          as are all of you.

      Abandon me,
  as you've threatened -
     I'll excuse you well.

                         For
    I am stupid & warm
      with the cracking
         of virtue and

                 orgasms.

After Waldman, After Sappho, 2007
Reference: Steve Kowit’s In the Palm of Your Hand 2nd Edition,“Poem 57: … get an anthology of ancient poetry… then find a poem whose theme appeals to you and write a poem in your own idiom that replays that theme” p 214