A Moralist Speaks

[abu nuwas]

i missed this one abu.
what did the dashes represent? ( i did use my own words of course)
i think you can read this in a few way. depending on who the reader sees the 1st person speaking too/with; friend, partner, self, which opens up extra dimensions. it has that great looky no touchy feel and in truth i feel a little guilty reading it because i'm always looking and thinking a similar thing

the dashes could be sw2apped for something of substance but i enjoyed it a lot. sorry for not getting to it till now

It is just a piece of fun, though I remember feeling slightly dirty, as there is a vague hint of the pervert. You have to imagine that you have come in mid-conversation, with the first speaker already on the defensive. The second speaker cannot be his partner, and in view of the implied age, is unlikely to be a parent. It could therefore be a sensible friend, m or f, or even he could be in some kind of institution, where they are trying to accustom him to ordinary life. Maybe a little more...or not...

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There's a nice comic candor to the piece . Some of the punctuation confused me but I liked it for what it is, I liked the directness.

It is a conversation. I see that the dashes are a bit muddling: they could just be a single long dash. Thank you for looking, Addy