Contrapuntal Daddy (ROUND 2)

Let’s workshop this poem, set to George Michael's 80s hit "Father Figure," about how a man’s rough-sex fantasies for a teenaged artist get disrupted by unexpected paternal urges to protect

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Contrapuntal Daddy

Daddy lust for the schoolgirl
sax starlet rose
to procreative octaves
until an inner light, 

brighter after the groaning
goo of chokehold
revery, had him
(skeptic turned telepath)

hum astral prayers
to her dad—really 
to himself, a dad too: 
“Protect that tender melody.”

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