Clicking Off

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Clicking Off

The promise of a frontier to be claimed,
the promise of the crowds whom he would crush,
destroying them as soon as he's defamed
their reputation, gives a man a rush,
but women do not show such tasteless tantra,
inhibited from being quite as boorish
by kindliness and love that are their mantra,
Othello proves this, masculine and Moorish.
The reason men behave as men is due to women,
as demonstrated, if you will, by Desdemona;
a lemon does not choose to be a lemon,
and big fish have to swallow men like Jonah.

Inspired by a cartoon by Levin in The New Yorker, September 27, 1999. Wife to husband who is working at his laptop: "And just what was that little window you clicked off when I came in?"