Sex in 2050
My father collects dismembered female meats
from the tandoor and gutters,
puts them in my mother’s street;
I’ve grown out of that womb where I wasn’t a mistake;
there are hardly any left like me; a secret.
Milk, I drink, to grow naughty things
yes, my pussy, my tits,
all those inner poetry men love to eat,
burn their mouths with plates of pure bodily-bits,
offerings—to be honest—more important
than trays of dumbest kiss.
I walk up to the village square, where
seventy-nine sons gather,
swear to reach behind my zipper.
Watching same-sex locking horns with one another,
I overhear worrying men calculating about
older factories at their lair.
Given the scale of such threats, I smile.
Evolutionary-urges once again are
virile. Convinced, I lead the masquerade
of my double crossed genes.
June Nandy's recent works have appeared in qarrtsiluni, Commonline Zine and elsewhere. Her collection of poetry, The lines must die has recently been published in India. Other details of her work can be accessed at:throughmystripedshirt.blogspot.com
For details on June's book, please check our Book Shelf
My father collects dismembered female meats
from the tandoor and gutters,
puts them in my mother’s street;
I’ve grown out of that womb where I wasn’t a mistake;
there are hardly any left like me; a secret.
Milk, I drink, to grow naughty things
yes, my pussy, my tits,
all those inner poetry men love to eat,
burn their mouths with plates of pure bodily-bits,
offerings—to be honest—more important
than trays of dumbest kiss.
I walk up to the village square, where
seventy-nine sons gather,
swear to reach behind my zipper.
Watching same-sex locking horns with one another,
I overhear worrying men calculating about
older factories at their lair.
Given the scale of such threats, I smile.
Evolutionary-urges once again are
virile. Convinced, I lead the masquerade
of my double crossed genes.
June Nandy's recent works have appeared in qarrtsiluni, Commonline Zine and elsewhere. Her collection of poetry, The lines must die has recently been published in India. Other details of her work can be accessed at:throughmystripedshirt.blogspot.com
For details on June's book, please check our Book Shelf
