On Sexual Freedom - 'like A Rocking Horse To The Highest Bidder' Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

I love talking to poets and I thought
That it was time for another chat with Hera Lindsay Bird
Such that I clicked on her website and brought up ‘Bisexuality':

'There's such a thing as too much sexual freedom....'
Heidegger wrote that and he was bisexual too
always naked on a black leash, scrubbing the telephone
You think my heart is a shanty town...with fur curtains blowing

It's like turning your back on God...........but in a risqué halter neck
Like a rocking horse at auction you go to the highest bidder
You want to come home, but your home was destroyed in the war....
And carefully refurbished, with an elegant leopard trim …"

Then I scrolled down and found a lead to Gonewild
And had to click on that - just two degrees on the Web!

Where ‘C**tnugget-22 (f) acts: Age-24 Height-5'3"
Weight-Fluctuates Measurements-Who cares,
every GW girl is different and they all look amazing! '
...
Had posted a fetching rear-end selfie
Together with some loving hearts for viewers:
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Which clicks me back to Heidegger on a leash...
Though my mind immediately wanders to Nietzsche
Being yoked and lashed by Lou Andreas-Salomé
And I find myself searching again for the famous photo -

And then bringing up her poem ‘Hymn to Life':

Surely, a friend loves a friend the way
That I love you, enigmatic life —
Whether I rejoiced or wept with you,
Whether you gave me joy or pain.

I love you with all your harms;
And if you must destroy me,
I wrest myself from your arms,
As a friend tears himself away from a friend's breast.

I embrace you with all my strength!
Let all your flames ignite me,
Let me in the ardor of the struggle
Probe your enigma ever deeper.

To live and think millennia!
Enclose me now in both your arms:
If you have no more joy to give me —
Well then—there still remains your pain.

... and pondering on the Wikipedia entry
Which notes that in her later years
Lou wrote a memoir 'Lebensrückblick'
Based on her memories of her life as a free woman
That sort of alluded, inter alia, to her relationship
With the poet Rainer Maria Rilke
Who she had noted ‘was the finest Lesbian Poet since Sappho'.

‘Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers;
but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole.
Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers.

Only if we refuse to reach into the bush,
because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once,
or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself

— only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone.'

A few days before Lou's death in Gottingen in 1937
The Gestapo confiscated her library.

As one of the first female psychoanalysts
And one of the first women to write on female sexuality,
She had written a book published in 1911 called Die Erotik
And a well-regarded essay on anal-eroticism in 1916 -
Both of which were admired by Freud who was Jewish
And not popular in Germany at that time:

'You want to come home, but your home was destroyed in the war....
Why does everything have to be so on fire? you ask yourself'.