Sonnets To JenniCam I, 14

July 13, 1997 ?

We follow her arousal, bliss, release. They no more can be called her private pleasure. The webcam lets us share them at our leisure, a circumstance which seems doomed to increase the outrage of the arbiters of morals. Can we conceive of why they even bother with JenniCam? They seem to want to mother the people who don't want them. But their quarrels: the issue seems to be, that they must think Jen's porn. But is a person's whole existence, complete with sex, obscene? Is that correct? Or are they pornographers, when they select from out of all of her life's image-ghosts the ones that fire their prurient interest most?

Fort Collins, September 3, 2003

In addition to being a tribute to Jenni, this poem is also a satire of R. M. Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus I, 14".