The End Of All Things Cold

For your review are several things an eye
likes to pretend isn’t there
the reality with the tattoo that says, “celibate”

Rush toward likenesses favored by all the fantasies
Aborted before they had time to birth your arousal
one made it through
neon light-eyed, that curve of mouth and lip
suggest cigarettes are not the only smoking
phallus that will be drained to the filter
if agreed that course
of action will cause
the sweetest exit
from this place we
all call
reality

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Photograph by Jonathan Kos-Read