the peak

needless to say

she’s bursting at the seams---

she’s in her 30’s &

she’s heard all the rumors

that it’s downhill from here---

24/7, like a teenage boy’s

one track mind,

she’s got sex rumbling round

behind the retinas &

suddenly every man that shows her

any appreciation,

is the next one to be served on the

platter---

what is it that the older women in

their lives tell them,

which frightens them, which makes them

distraught?

what truth about

the peak,

is buried deep within the colossal let down

of age &

the depression that follows &

what does it mean to a woman,

to just want to f**k &

pick up the pieces of everything else,

after the dust clears?