Poetry
by Jeff Hearn
OF TWO PARTS (MAKES FOUR)
I am a person of two parts:
Mother-part, father-part.
I am a body of two parts:
Mother-torso, father-legs.
Mother-torso is slim, smooth, womanly,
(No breasts).
Father-legs is thick, rough, manly,
(No cartilage trouble).
SON NET
To greet our parents' other lovers
To see the ones we never saw
Who weren't our fathers or our mothers
Yet who might have known us more
We note this thin mysterious thread
That crosses crude dissociation
The twine from which these loved ones fled
Enlisting death's ingratiation.
So left within that emptiness
Where beautiful alone may stand
Come faint hearts, breath and faint caress
And last alone my death white hand,
That could have held an older other
As if a sister or a brother.
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If we have mothers and fathers
We do two things:
We love them, emulate them directly
And
We admire them, emulate them according to social convention.
(For this reason we also have to hate them).
The latter gives us:
Father-he-man and mother heterosexual;
The former:
Mother-she-male and father-gay.
Usually the he-man and heterosexual combine
Combine
Under the pressure of social convention
While
Mother-she-male and father-gay
Lurk
Ashamedly in the shadows
To which we occasionally stir.
I am a sex of four parts:
Mother-she-male, mother heterosexual,
Father-he-man, father-gay.
Mother-torso has two parts:
Slim smooth mother-heterosexuality,
Slim smooth father-gayness.
Father-legs has two parts:
Thick rough father-he-manliness,
Thick rough mother-she-maleness.
TIME TO FEAR
Please play with me kind patriarch
Let your power droop
From your hunched shoulders
Your charred breast
And tensed stomach muscles
To your wobbly knees
And tingly feet.
Let your Shout out
Release it freed to the wind
And be afraid of life once more.
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I am a love of two parts.
As father-he-man
I love with father-legs,
An imaginary mother-she-male;
She is my mother-heterosexual
(And imaginary father-gay);
She is my stalwart daughter
Her mother is my father.
As mother-heterosexual
I would love with mother-torso,
Be imaginary father-gay;
She would be my father-she-woman
(And imaginary mother-she-male);
She would be my sensuous son
Her mother my mother.
While legs are rough and she-male
Torsos are smooth and gay.
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