withering unwooded widowed man hidden hood disrupted by contact poison peeled back banana like Joanna Russ in reverse a male woman in heels and swayed hips and strong cheekbones turned coyly aside stubble waxed laser depilation in the mirror eyes shadowed by ancestral rituals of suffering like bulls pierced through muscle before heart to bleed out onto trampled sand to the roar of a crowd slinging vicarious phalluses eclipsed by phantom womb pain a grotesque parody of the first origin a circus fixed by a knife dangling vocal cords disposing of wombs as medical waste i grew in there! is it toxic? words spilling acid creased electric knees bending into nylons until Susan Faludi backs the lash and hairy knuckles pepper plums fresh across spans of winter white is that what half the population wants? disembodied castrated undermined manhood pivots violated disempowered cow corralled womanhood repulsive human race! all of us animals licking spoiled wounds for the taste
July 13, 2021
