《Burning Moths》Rick: The Debate
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Both of us sit in the front row
You on the left; Me on the right
Each week we focus on different
Policy, and this week we're all
Discussing the Great Aid Debate.
When you and I agree, it's rare bliss--
Usually we go right for the jugular.
Yet I like arguing with you. It makes
My day to rile you up, to make your
Heart race and your cheeks flush.
Debating seems the only way
I can manage it now.
But today you're subdued, almost calm
And it annoys our poor professor as well
Because the liberal always banks on us
Making a scene to entertain the others
And to drag them along unawares.
Now lesser minds give me half-hearted
Arguments as to why we should impose
Our will on sovereign nation states
And deprive them of their natural
Evolution. I shoo away the pesky flies.
"What about the recent Patriot Act?"
says our flustered professor,
Drastically changing the subject
To address the second article
Of the required reading for today.
Oh, now we're talking!
It wakes you from your dreary slumber
And judging by your determined glare,
I know a storm is brewing in your mind.
Bring it, sweetheart! Use your wrathful
Words like daggers to pierce my heart.
Fight me!
We tear apart each other's arguments
Like two frantic lovers ripping clothes
From each other's trembling bodies.
Express your passion! Prove to me how
Our forbidden love has never faded.
Show me.
Your every word is a deadly bullet.
Your every glance is a glinting dagger,
Thrusting into my willing flesh.
Here I stand, ready to accept
Whatever you're willing to give.
Face me.
Stab me, woman. Pierce me with your
Forceful speech and haunting gaze!
Can you still stand strong as my equal,
Duelling with choreographed words
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In this, our glorious dance of war?
Impress me.
Your tempered sword impales my heart,
Your whole weight pressed upon the hilt.
Making love happens with mighty words,
Intimacy growing between the two of us
Without a single physical touch needed.
Join me.
If this is to be our one deadly dance,
May we waltz like this for all eternity
Calculated yet elegant perpetual motion
Our blades locked while I run mine along
The length of yours, waiting for you.
Strike me.
Too soon the class ends
And we fall silent once more.
Electric tension buzzes between us
Like a dying fluorescent bulb,
Neither of us daring to speak.
"See you at The Pub?" I ask,
My heart pounding against my ribs.
You nod. "I'm going with friends."
"Ah, the socialist brigade?"
You scrunch your nose
In that way that makes me chuckle.
"Don't even! You've lost that right."
We stop a foot apart, much too close
According to our Catholic tradition.
Three feet minimum, that's the rule,
But for you, I couldn't care less.
For you, I would close any gap
As long as we commit no sin.
I can't resist teasing you.
"Have I, indeed?"
You gaze at me through long lashes,
Your cheeks still flushed from earlier,
Defiant to the last. You scowl at me
And jut your chin, ever so stubborn.
That's it. Prod me with your finger
Square upon my chest. Defy me!
"Yes!"
"Yes?"
"Yes..."
God gives me the good grace to
Resist clasping your hand with mine.
Leave now!
Before your heart overpowers your brain.
"Have fun with the riff-raff, sweetheart."
"Hey, Rick?"
I turn to face you,
Raising a quizzical brow.
"You look better," you say softly.
"Happier. Healthier. More rested."
Are you...flirting?
No, we don't play those games.
We flirt through political strife.
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