I remember when I was in my twenties,
and a woman I knew said she didn’t know
how a woman we knew always kept men
addicted to her.

it was as if she had siren-like ensnarements
that bound men to her —

that kept them dazed and under her control
permanently, inescapably.

I never got to know that woman. Maybe I
feared her siren-like powers and didn’t
want to be her next love bound hostage.

Bob Boyd