Love Poem: Soviet Sex
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Written by: Sidney Beck

Soviet Sex

SOVIET      SEX

An old professor,  communist  and wed,                      
Had recently been  rather  emotive:                              
Turned to his wife one night  in their big bed -                      
I think  our love arrangement’s inactive.                 

I’m sorry  if   I  seem  to  be   restive                     
But  single-spouse   is  bourgeois, usual.    
We should perhaps live in a collective:                             
No   exclusivity  residual !                           

There’s   a  pretty   nurse at the hospital                   
Who wants to live in with us, (I mean me).                      
Yes,  I think you might like living with  Sal :                         
And our bed is big enough for all three. 
                               
       Yes, says wife,   but  bed’s big enough for four:                
       So let’s include her young husband   Igor.