THE NEW YORKER'S KAMA SUTRA MEETS THE RUBAIYAT AND ME

When the man is loading the dishwasher, and the woman must come over, because he is loading it wrong, it is called “the dishwasher position.”

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Who will wash the dishes? 

What a load of Malarkey this is..

We'll get a servant who's a midge

to live besides us in the fridge

and---with enough ice--

 it will be Paradise!

When the man and the woman have eaten Indian food, and are too swollen with rice to make conversation, let alone love, it is called “the beaching of the whales.”

Ah, would there were a loaf of bread as fare,
A joint of lamb, a jug of vintage rare,
And you and I in wilderness encamped—
No Sultan’s pleasure could with ours compare.

Ah, but In wilderness there'd be no treat

 to make us overeat. 

So, alas, my sweet

please don't feel rebuffed

because I'm overstuffed

and just  NOT in the mood--

I hope, without being rude.

When the man passes gas in front of the woman, without so much as an apology, it is called “the shifting of the standards.”

For some we loved, the loveliest and best
That from His rolling vintage Time has pressed,
Have drunk their glass a round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest

Why worry about inappropriate nudity

or an occasional crudity

such as passing gas

when all too soon,  for all in  this cartoon 

"this too shall pass".

HZL

8/20/22

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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام ) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in ...

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