Ah, what a duel!
Is that purple,
Or is it black?
Paddy-whacked?

Maybe (M)man
Has to know
The essence of himself
Before he understands
His opposite. Maybe conquest
And rape is an attempt
To populate a world
With himself. I don’t know.

What I know is what comes
From my loins is combined,
Very rarely ever one.
Woman-wise, I mean.

You know, the whatever-
Comes-from-my-sperm-is-me
Mentality isn’t. It’s a parcel of two.
Two, extrapolated,
Becomes billions.

Which isn’t woe-way?
Purple or black? An image,
Of clouds on television,
Lightning had hit the top…

Producing similarities.

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 10/18/09