Dead HibiscusA Poem by Jason HenryIf I was a girl I know exactly what kind of vagina I'd have: A dead hibiscus; Yawning, stretching its major labium to the sunlight, Then succumbing to night without water, sun; Without soil, without fun. It's sensitive but eager enough to at least consider growth but separation from consciousness, the rend from stem and thalamus made one asexual but never disturbing the drive. I look to the penis. He hangs his head, knowing, Slinking back into his heterogametic sleeping bag inside a testosterone tent. What a resplendent purple I would be! Petals from any season. I will settle for black And refrain from mentioning that it is not yet the new black, else a worthy hibiscus decides to come cut me. Bees would come to tease and get scared by the stigma. Guess you'd have to like me for me because it is very hard for me to pretend at this point. I'm not the cocoon c**t: A dangling damsel Waiting for incubation to expire. I'm not a plate tectonic p***y hole: a fissure along some exotic island ready to spit and squirt sexy magma. And I'm not flower-power vagina because nature didn't care enough. I was hidden by the bush. I am the catatonic, dead hibiscus. Yearning and yawning.
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