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Sit Back. Relax. Enjoy.
I remember saying it to my first lover —
frightened, only mildly interested, a virgin,
in a small apartment at 504 South Liberty
Avenue in Endicott, New York, circa 1967,
before the invention of technique
and caution, before there was heartbreak.
Sit back. Relax. Enjoy, I said,
wanting to ease her toward pleasure
the way a man eases a lame spouse downward
so he, too, can come to rest. Sit back.
Relax. Enjoy, I repeated. Sit back. Relax.
Enjoy. Now, twenty years and thousands
of enjoyments later, on American Airlines
Flight 363 from San Francisco, a stewardess
with the sweet scent of a dental hygienist
says it to me: Sit back. Relax. Enjoy.
How beautiful obedience is, I say to myself,
here in midair and midlife, thinking ahead
to the other end of our long flight
when a voice as heavenly as hers
will say it again: Sit back. Relax. Enjoy.
And we will.
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Michael Blumenthal and Nerve.com
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