Why Like Sex Much

Biological bribery,
Some call it, and they’re sort of right—

Not just for reproduction, love
Is bribery from life for life,

Nothing if not the hankering
Of matter to go on living,

Or, along with going on itself,
To ensure life itself goes on—

Pleasure and desire for pleasure
Greater than the pleasure itself,

Bodies wanting to smash and grind
So there will be more bodies, so

Bodies will go on wanting, so
Matter will go on making life

Wanting life to go on wanting
To be life wanting to be life.