I was driving down the Oregon Coast when she sexted me a beautiful photo of her backside.

I was driving down the Oregon Coast when she sexted me a beautiful photo of her backside. JEFF SHERIDAN

I’ve been having a lot of sex on my phone lately. Earlier this year, I moved from Seattle to a Monsanto bean field called Warrensburg, Missouri, for a college teaching job. I was glad to have the job—glad to have any job after getting a master’s degree in poetry—but romantic options within a 40-mile radius were limited. My main options were to have sex with my students or to have sex with my former students. I’ve always viewed my students in a sisterly way, and despite the relatively relaxed mood about that sort of thing in Missouri, I knew it’d be poor form to pursue relations with undergraduates…

Rich Smith is The Stranger's former News Editor. He writes about politics, books, and performance. You can read his poems at www.richsmithpoetry.com