THE PROBLEM OF NAKED WOMEN

They’re everywhere: book stores, TVs, PCs, museums, telephones (strictly hearsay),
libraries, backyards, psych. wards and imaginations – like a cancer creeping among the
internal organs of our society.

All it takes is one woman changing clothes in the privacy of her own home, a little snake of light entering through a crack in the curtains, and arousal begins to grip the universe.

The malignancy spreads through the males. Under the influence of these unholy visions they sweat, swell up and swindle.

“However”, according to one analyst, “this is only true of the human species.”

So, the problem of naked women may be connected to the size and complexity of the brain. That means the male human brain is the real problem.

“If only we could get everyone to have exactly the same brain, like carrots or beets,” concludes one surgeon, in her sexy white blood-splattered gown.

Ah, then lobotomies may be the solution to the problem.

Grandmothers yelling at teens to stop looking at dirty pictures on the Internet will solve nothing, at least as long as Granddaddy is still around playing with himself in front of an old condemned Brigitte Bardot flick down in the unfinished basement.

“So, let’s have one whole side of Grandpa’s brain removed asap,” suggests Grandma Shrink, using sex as a club again, while her daughter is downtown collecting twenties in her cleavage and g-string.

Of course we’ll need to have more public officials spying on enterprising privates and closing them down. And, we’ll need to burn all the cellos.

The problem is so big. Maybe castration is the answer. Maybe what the world needs now is more sopranos. And prisons, at least one on every street.

What happened to the good old days of family values, incest and child labor! Why can’t we just get everyone to believe in the same God like the ants do. We ought to go back to the grand old Dark Ages of iconoclasm, virgin mothers and cannibalism – Christ’s flesh and blood served up in pure gold platters and chalices while the choir plays with its organs and sings in perfect harmony.

Or we could take the offending part, the head, and smash it again and again into a blackboard, unconsciousness being the heavenly goal. Then make each pubescent boy carry the crucifix of his hormones up to Golgotha. It’s the Catholic school approach to purification: the body is the original sin.

Bless me, Father Pedophile, it has been 46 years since my last confession, I have jerked off about a quarter of a million times, I have hooted at hundreds of hale Marys…and oh by the way, how is that vow of celibacy working for you so far?

Say, for your penance, I flip you the bird, the “sign of the cross,” and, heartlessly not sorry for having offended thee, leave the church with a host of NAKED WOMEN!!!!!!!

COURSE OBJECTIVES

to locate
a 19-year-old voluptuous beauty
who is into funky poetry
and moderately married
literature professors with thinning gray hair;

to fix oneself
with a booster of infatuation
like cortisone directly into
the place where it chronically hurts;

to put a little distance,
in the form of an impressionable devotee,
between the 50-something failed poet
and his rapidly approaching eternal death;

to strike a long wooden marriage
against the flint of a new flirtation,
smell the sulfur, feel the sizzle,
know the lightning has selected me
to carry its torch.

GULF

after being assigned to write a poem
using the word gulf in it

I went immediately
to the dictionary

to look it up
and got as far as the part

where it says “from the Greek word
kolpos meaning bosom

and there my eyes rested
engulfed as it were for hours

IT'S IRONIC

I was tooling around
in my Saturn named Monica
my hand on the stick
just to be sure
when suddenly the shotgun went off:

“You’re a sex addict!” she said,
her cheeks all puffed up
with chocolate cake,
cup of cappuccino in her hand,
whipped cream in the cleft of her upper chin!

THE FORTUNE

What better way, I think,
to top off Chicken Lo Mien than
with the intriguing words of a cookie:
“A beautiful young woman
has something she wants to ask you!”

As I am fantasizing about
all the beautiful young women I know,
the lovely young waitress comes
over to my table and says,
“More wata, mista?”

THE FACTS OF LIFE

THE FACTS OF LIFE


“You eat too much,” she said

With my mouth full of chips and dip
I said,
“hows about a little roll in the hay?”
which came out sounding like
“cows are out a tittle bowl in the gay?”

but she could tell what I meant
from the obesity of my left front pocket

and she hit me
with the 14th and 15th letters of the alphabet
N & O consecutively

leaving me no alternative but
to further caress and penetrate
the old bag of Lays

GOOD WORKS

I visit John in the nursing home

Couldn’t figure out what he needed
so I come empty-handed

When I get to the room they say he’s in
he’s not there

The leer the quip the spark
pretty much gone

He’s being fed
by a gorgeous, brown-skinned girl

Right away as soon as I see them
I know what I can give him

I should brush up against her
bump her just hard enough

so that she’ll spill herself
all over John’s remains caws

that’s how every damn one of us guys
wants to go out