Beautiful Women, Lonely And Passionate, Waiting For You To Call
Michael Shorb
We men are looting
the earth in order
to stay erect,
freeze-dried loin of tiger,
ground elk antler,
horny goat weed
bolstered by plutonium,
pheromones of a barnyard bull and
yes, they call the biceps
‘guns’
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, LONELY AND
PASSIONATE, WAITING FOR
YOU TO CALL
And now our featured animation:
Mr. Potter from
It’s A Wonderful Life and
Mr. Burns from The Simpsons
swim and cavort in an indoor
pool filled with Viagra tablets
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, LONELY AND
PASSIONATE, WAITING FOR
YOU TO CALL
Hanging with my new friends
morning wood and Mr. Johnson
smoking this cigar,
sipping that cognac,
all women spread out before me,
electronic menu of harem eyes
breasts and thighs inviting
as sleep in a strange bed,
slippery strength of skin,
petal storms of completion.
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, LONELY AND
PASSIONATE, WAITING FOR
YOU TO CALL
We men are stripping
the earth for profit,
let’s talk it over on TV,
let’s memorize the
rules that apply,
these are days when
they poison the lake going
for the gold, killing every
swimming thing, but agree
to repopulate it later,
days when they simply
cut off the tops of mountains
for easy access to rich
black seams of coal,
dumping toxin-laced
rubble into valleys below.
So sue us.
We’re the fucking human race.
We do whatever we do.
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, LONELY AND
PASSIONATE, WAITING FOR
YOU TO CALL