Goines On: “Proceed with coition”

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While working on a poem using sexual metaphors for depicting a writer’s encounter with his muse, Goines remembered his virginal college sophomore shock during a Saturday night party in Yale’s Calhoun College upon seeing the placard tacked on one of the host suite’s two bedroom doors: “Proceed with coition.”
    Though Goines had not quite yet had sexual intercourse, he was not unschooled in some of its vocabulary, so he got the pun. (Had anyone thought the third word a misspelling?)