Let’s Get Physical
In America, they refuse to teach
sexual education,
and so boys explore women
the way they explore the world:
with fast fingers and fat thumbs,
neither comprehending
nor particularly caring
about causing pain or being gentle,
looking for shortcuts
to satisfaction, and something
that they can brag about
with other boys.
Sex Work
So much depends upon sex
workers, their needs being met
meaning clocking in to get money
to feed their families if not themselves,
and those dollar bills drizzling down,
consecrated in draft beer and drunk
fingers, some w/ gold bands others empty,
open, yearning to hold anything
other than air, heads already full:
these men all breaking their backs
and each other’s balls either 9 to 5
or more horrible shifts, putting in work
to get paid so they too can satisfy
needs: three squares, a roof, and AC,
but also to get rid of so much
energy and anxiety that builds up
needing release, this way or some other
more old-fashioned notion of actual love,
where you no longer have to trade for it
in a noisy club surrounded by other dicks,
you simply take your vow and promise
to think only about her even when
your eyes are closed, and you recall
times that sometimes seem better,
when you were free, and had friends
or shift mates to shoot the shit
and stimulate all kinds of economies,
occasionally if drunkenly leaving a card
on the bar because who knows…
maybe she’ll call you because she wants to
settle down and stop selling her sex
as work for workers who want nothing more
than to never work another day in their lives.
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