Dianne Millen 66% 66% water And the women’s magazines all say to drink five pints a day To top us up. So I do, and you do, and then I reach inside to the wrist and cuff myself to water. Like a secret spring (unbottled, uncarbonated, unsold) each night finds its own level. 66% water (Well, women are.) Men are less moist, and this has consequences, for both our senses. They’re not told to drink five pints a day To top them up. so they don’t, and I don’t feel the need to reach inside them to find the airy, sterile hollow, A part-evacuated tube where sparks can jump from mind to mine – but not from womb to womb. 50% water Covers the surface of my dreamscapes. Where men are moist and women airy, and I neither parch nor drown. Unhooked from water but not enslaved to fire.