"Entire Fair Gender"

by Jeph Johnson

 

Enter the high splendor
of the beatific and tender,
replete of desires I play.
completing the unachievable
entire fair gender,
deep I unfold in dismay...
I keep being told
how the intriguing hold
of my condescending portrayal
exits the abhorrent,
ugly and sophomoric
tendencies I sometimes display;
for conflicting agendas
creep in as surrender
pretends to break down and decay
the town that surrounds me,
it never has found me
awake in the light of day.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

1999

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