dip in the pool

man
all these fempoets
hate sex
he said

you must not have met
some of the ones
I know
I told him

well
some of them
don't hate it exactly
but none of them
are any
good at it

so give up
I told him
find a nice
cowgirl
or something

no way
he said
I have to remain
available to the
poetry
gene pool

natural insemination
services
available
widely published
genes

hell
he said
social duty
fulfilled is worth
any price

you dip
I told him
those babies would
follow you through
every incarnation
fuck up your karma
among the choir
invisible

yeah
he said
and their
mommas too
just think
down the line
the artistic complexity
of it all

trailing clouds
of babies
lesbian mommas
and poetry
into a red karmic
sunset

but just as things
were getting really
interesting
one more Jameson's
and he was
out
cold

© 1995 by
Michael McNeilley
Published in Penny Dreadful Review, Nashville, TN, 1997.