{"id":365,"date":"2006-11-08T23:06:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/09\/pivotal-instant\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T01:09:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T05:09:29","slug":"pivotal-instant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/08\/pivotal-instant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal instant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No<br \/>\nis the answer<br \/>\nis the beginning<\/p>\n<p>Two possible lovers<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***********<\/font>lovers<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***********<\/font>haters<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***********<\/font>indifferenters<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>sitting on a couch<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>standing outside a door<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>lying side by side on a blanket on a beach<\/p>\n<p>facing the inevitable all-consuming moment<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the question<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the answer<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font><font color=\"#ffffff\">********<\/font>positive\/negative<\/p>\n<p>It has to be negative for the tension the experiment the perpetuation<br \/>\nand in the interval<br \/>\nin the interval between the answer and the real answer<\/p>\n<p>but before the interval:<br \/>\nin the preliminaries before the interval<br \/>\nin the courtship ritual<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*****<\/font>that is the uncertainty<br \/>\nin the moments<br \/>\nwhen<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*****<\/font>all the genetic triggers<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">**********<\/font>passed through eons of surviving wombs<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the raw dripping jungles<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the frantic hunt<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the recovery from oozing injuries<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the desperate competition for a mate<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the flirting<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the groin-stirring chases<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the gut-churning joys and failures<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>in the tribal protections and migrations<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ffffff\">*****<\/font>all the social conditioning<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*********<\/font>in the schools and streets and shopping malls<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*********<\/font>in the churches, houses and halls of the laws<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the rules of elders, clergy, self<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the advice of ignorant peers<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the revealed welcoming skin<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the haunting eyes and hair-touchings<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the missed phone calls<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>the silence of answering<\/p>\n<p>through that<br \/>\nthose preliminaries<br \/>\nto the hot moment of doubt before the<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>leap to<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">***************<\/font>proposition<\/p>\n<p>and the resounding refusal<br \/>\njust before the softening<br \/>\nthe willingness<br \/>\nthe acceptance<br \/>\nthe heat<br \/>\nthe shallow breathing<br \/>\ncontact<\/p>\n<p>Yes<br \/>\nis the answer<br \/>\nis the end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No is the answer is the beginning Two possible lovers ***********lovers ***********haters ***********indifferenters ***************sitting on a couch ***************standing outside a door ***************lying side by side on a blanket on a beach facing the inevitable all-consuming moment ***************the question ***************the answer &hellip; 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