blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

POETRY

GERALD STERN

Richard

What's he going to do, mourn the sperm
he lost six months ago or the money he
gave her as her belly rose, is there money
every time the prick rises, did going to the
whores in Homestead, did sitting there watching his
sisters pin the satin tent spoil him
once and forever, what about his oldest friend
hiding half his money, what about
forcing his wife at 80 to live without heat,
where was the unlicked prick then, oh impotence!  


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