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February 3, 2000
To the Girl on the Cover of the Man’s Magazine (an alternate attempt at temptation evasion)
this new technique I’ll try today and see if I allow it to succeed
your body graces the magazine rack scant scraps containing your beauty seen as I should see my wife alone
she of far greater joy than your fleeting paper dreams however much they promise
your pose arrayed to lust arouse
for who can love what is not known
must have been studied or practiced to meet with such immediate success for upon eyeing you my mind instantly deserts my family, my loves for the joys your body offers
scarce clothed immodest showing all but the essentials
seeking where none can follow the pleasures of your love
there’s a word misused for it is not love we call love that unmasks itself as lust
and fighting desperate the urge to see you more I pen these lines to your tribute
not to your body, for all it merits praise nor the emotion raised, strong though it be but to your higher, better self that you of God’s design beyond this earthly guise you choose so to misuse
in the hopes that as a prayer they will help to love, as would God this one who seeks my ruin
I pray this One who stands beside this failure as he writes and prays may also be seen by you to your salvation that you may be no longer used by Hell, the author of man’s doom, to lead to their destruction, and your own, those your beauty snares
may the God who saves me save also you
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