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read write prompt #119: let's get it on

by Dave Jarecki

Growing up in Pennsylvania, I remember mid-March as being a battle between cabin and spring fevers. Some years, the season’s last blizzard was coming; others, kids gathered at outdoor basketball hoops for two-on-two, double-elimination tournaments.

Regardless of the weather or place in the world, by the end of a long winter or start of a sudden spring, the sexually restless among us are done being cooped up. In many cases, two or more will go off to conjugate. A percentage of such excursions predictably leads to the creation of children. This explains why so many of my friends — not to mention their own kids — were born in December.

This act of pairing up, bedding down and making a third human is as bizarre and chance-driven as anything else that happens during our lives. Still, not too many people sit around and ponder the haphazard nature of getting it on.

Consider the fact that, before people can meet people, other people need to meet people just to create the people who will one day meet, fall down and sometimes make other people who will one day meet people. Follow the trail into the future and the line never ends. Head in reverse, you eventually arrive at the first meeting of seed and soil.

Who or what but a poet can sit around and give thought to this topic, let alone write about it?

And with that, my lovers and friends, I beseech you. Go forth with this notion. Or go back. Multiply with your words.

dave jareckiDave Jarecki writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction from his home in Portland, Ore. Read and listen to his work, as well as the work of guest writers, at DaveJarecki.com.

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