SoMa Literary Review - Performance Anxiety

Performance Anxiety

By Jan Steckel

Little orgasms of the mind,
that's what poets look for,
the ooh, baby, ah, baby, yes, baby,
you know how to do it to me, baby,
that's what we're after.
And it IS a doing to you, baby,
an essentially passive pleasure.
So lie back
and let me read to you.
Or do you secretly wish for
a performance poet?

Also by Jan Steckel on SoMa Literary Review:

Charity After the Hurricane, Getting Slammed & 35th Avenue Ladybug

Oakland writer and performance poet Jan Steckel’s work has also appeared in Margin, Lodestar Quarterly, BiMagazine, The Pedestal Magazine. She is the author of The Underwater Hospital.