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***BIO*** Corey Cook's work has appeared in Baby Clam Press, Children, Churches and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, Nerve Cowboy, "remark." and The Shit Creek Review. He works and lives in New Hampshire.
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In an Apartment on Main Street
by Corey Cook
My neighbors’ love making,
or my neighbors’ fucking, wakes
me at 2:00 am, I do not hear

squeaky bedsprings, or the headboard
beating against the wall – it is not
the suggestion of sex. A female

voice exhales, “Ohhh, yes…
Ohhh…Ya…Ohhhhhh…
Yes…Yes…Yes…”

Waves of pleasure made audible.
O                          s   ...   O                          s
     h                e                   h                e
          h,     y                             h,     y
I am the microphone used to record

the sounds of staged sex – held high
above the bed. The act is now
documented, which means

that it may be analyzed and, thus,
criticized.
My criticism: too loud.
June 2007
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