The Great Masturbator By Manny Grimaldi

 

I am the very model of a modern major radio star.

I’ve information. I am a Pooh Bear. I puff Gauloises

and my poesies are on demand 

with a much venerated mustache to boot.

I topple high society reaching dizzying Olympus Mons.

I think I bring war’s hammer to the world 

with every word from my silky, sensual honeyed lips,

my slips and heels and lipstick too.

But my tease does not serve you.

I could stand atop a bar waving my hairy hips

over your bourbon and Coors Light,

and flavor your beverage with such delight—

that you’d reject me.

Instead I cling to a stripper’s pole, descend,

whirring a hole to China where the rice is warm,

and the birds are cold.

They will watch me make changes divine.

I am rose of May. I am MacBeth. I am most anyone

to impress.

Strip this artifice what do you find?

Leave with your questions, close the curtains, 

none of this is mine.

manny grimaldi is a kentucky poet and editor now celebrating the release of his first poetry book RIDING SHOTGUN WITH THE MOTHMAN, available on Amazon.  he is managing editor at YEARLING poetry journal in its 4th year of publication.  he lives in an uncharted area of the ghetto with two insane birds named PETEY and CORNPOP that wake at 4:45 a.m. and sing melodiously to the tunes of LANA DEL REY and MY MORNING JACKET.  the dishes are never done. 

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