The Indirectness of Safe Sex

Sex without Love, by Sharon Olds, is a very direct poem.  Itconsistently questions how it is possible for two people to make loveless sex.  Olds uses many metaphores to compare with how she views sex. In contrast, Safe Sex, by Donald Hall, seems very straight forward at first, as he talks about people having a "one night stand." This seems like "Safe Sex" is a ""one night stand"; however, by the then of the poem, Hall describes an image of a dead body floating in the pond.  Now, the poem's meaning changes, and it agrees with the poem, Sex without Love, how loveless sex is bad.