Pitifully Bulging with Restraint

     Pitifully Bulging with Restraint

The ancient myths refrain from giving hot

Exactness to sex swollen loves.  The gate

Of Troy is breached, but Homer leaves out taut

Male flesh in ram and slam of lust in spate

Between Queen Helen’s legs.  When Zeus rapes up

Inside the perfect hole of Ganymede,

The myth omits that thrusting.  Just the cup

The boy presents appears.  The smelly seed

That Lancelot spews into Guinevere

Is never mentioned or the lance he used

To pierce her guts.  Isolde’s gap takes spear

Of Tristan, leaving royal bed abused

With banging of a bloated piece of meat.

The myths are always chastely incomplete.

Phillip Whidden