26 November 2009

in Allusion to Olympia

I would have commissioned
a portrait of you, something
of vinyl house paint and pubic hair
to hang horizontally over
the futon in your living room.

I pictured you reclining in it,
modestly (as if you ever could, you cunt!)
obscuring your genitals with a cupped hand,
because love means thinking
better of you than you are.