The Amazing Sexual Exploits of Harry Houdini (spoken word)

[milo]

Trying one with something I posted here a while back to see if sound cloud works for me.

Harry Houdini

The Amazing Sexual Exploits of Harry Houdini


He liked to be handcuffed—
and not with those
fuzzy pink novelties.

He liked the ones that bite
against the wrists,
the ephemeral challenge
of something like helplessness.

There was always the foreplay
of card tricks, the predictable appetites
of birthday-entertainers
with store-bought illusions.

Old pleasure is a faded stage
bouquet of plastic flowers,
a dehydrated dove.
Magic’s raw essence is misdirection.

Showing off a new spectacle,
suspended upside down,
bound and lowered
into this baptism

of black water. Each second
like the pulse of a metronome,
the faint ripple of eternity.

Escape while possible,
is unsatisfying—
not the same as release.

Any amateur could perform
in private. The thrill
was in being exposed.

I just managed to stumble across this a couple years late. I feel like we don't have enough audios of participants' poems on the site, i am delighted every time i stumble across one.