Whether they were full of lies and exaggerations or not, Mead's adolescent sex in Samoa and Chagnon's fierce people of the Amazon definitely made anthropology popular.  I wonder if these thematic schemes--sex and violence--so overused in Hollywood will work in marketing anthropology.

I'm now trying these thematic schemes in my writing, so I won't lose my interest in poetry.

How I Got Syphilis

I blamed hashish at first
when he suddenly paused
while I was struggling to reach
my orgasm.
Then I thought it was absinthe
that made him think after we made love
that I was a pulsating slab
of liver.
After he sliced off his ear,
I quit seeing him,
hoping he would seek help and stop staring
at the sky.
I refused his sunflowers
and written flirtations
and began sleeping with his friend
Gauguin. 

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Sleeping with Buson

In front of him—

archer,

oarsman

wearing a cotton loincloth—

I hesitated

then shied away.

The scissors

sharp like his other blades—

sword,

dagger—

were unwilling

before the white chrysanthemum.