Wednesday, August 28, 2024

innocent pizza delivery June 12, 2012

 



 I read the story she wrote

 that caused such an uproar, 

about an unsuspecting fool 

delivering pizza, 

a fictional account of a man

carrying this wilting box

 stained red with sauce 

into the mouth of a fly trap 

where women waited to

 use and abuse him, 

and I wish it was me,

 shocked at myself for thinking this,

 scared that the reality is far, far worse,

 her control over me only 

without the brief moment of joy

 before the jaws

 of the fly trap snaps shut, 

the bliss of the innocence 

most men feel before they

 find out they have been used, 

and I wonder when

 she writes about this,

 about some other woman 

who laid out her private fantasy, 

whether or not she wished

 she was that woman 

and just who she saw in her head

 playing in part in this seduction, 

and whether or not

 it is fiction at all 

in her head 

or what she does already.


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