Part One
Mute Biblical Folks
Ignorant Adolescent
Playboy Centerfolds

Part Two
It was a secret.

One morning after marriage,
The cranial lights lit.
It was new that I knew
My parents did it too.
No test tube babies
Where I came from
No cloning around.

Do you
Want to know
About sex too?
Join the
Mute,
Deaf
& ‘dumb’
Club
To find out.

After all,
Advocating ignorance
Is not a secret.
Find a scapegoat.
Blame it all on
A teacher.

Leave it up to the schools
But make sure
They do it the
Dogged,
Biblical minority way
Leading to the highway
Of sexually transmitted
HIV
& teen pregnancy,
And a return to
Back alley,
John Irving,
‘Cider House Rules’;
Coat hanger abortions.

Huh?
I don’t get it!
What about family values?
Few teach us
Wisely
To be a husband,
A wife,
A parent.
Leading to a
Fifty percent
Divorce rate
& single parent homes;
Unsupervised latch-key-kids
By the millions
Alone
Watching television
Surfing the Net
With violent-video games
To discover like-a-Columbus.

How many died
Due to him?

Shhh,
Keep mum.
Abstinence only
Is the squeaky wheel
Foundation’s
Only option
To mutate girls into
Man hating
Eunuchs before marriage
But boys will by boys.
As a matter of fact,
Thanks to science,
Girls don’t need boys.
So,
Let’s get rid of them
For the almighty.

Humans
don’t breathe.
don’t eat.
don’t need water.
Weapons are the game;
War is righteous;
Sex the sin.

We are not the
Bonobo
Even though we
Share 98% of our
Genetic profile
With this female dominated,
Sex loving,
Nonviolent relative
That does not start
Hate driven genocides
By the dozens
Shouting god is righteous.

Instead we chase
Money
While violent gangs,
Graffiti
And drugs flourish.
War is one
Blessed link
And millions die needlessly.
Think of the crusades
With the great
Land owning Church.
The king of kings is on ‘their’ side.
While sin-soaked-sex
Rules bonobo social life.

Shame on them.

Don’t tell anyone.
If we don’t talk about it,
It doesn’t exist
Like
John Lennon,
The Kennedys,
Martin Luther,
& the forty thousand
That die on raging roads
Each year
While pistol packing suicide
And violent crime
Add their dime.

Where I taught,
Teenage “f_ _ k” words
Ruled the halls
With kids swapping spit
Between classes
Ignoring the unenforceable
That exists to make an
Absent parent happy
Forgetting
They were teens too.

Cover mouth.
Ears and eyes.
Forget girls are girls.
&
Boys are boys.
Attraction does not exist.
Stop the action!
No excuses!
No wet dreams allowed
Leading to secret,
Mortal
Masturbation sin.
‘Hard-ons’
And ‘stiffies’
Do not exist.
The Penis
Does not have a mind
Of its own
Leading to all-the-time,
Anytime erections.

We have nothing in common
With the bonobo.
The human libido,
Is not an emotional vortex,
A Pandora’s Box
Filled with
Desire;
Attraction.

Repeat over-and-over
To make it real
To convince your born-again self.

Don’t admit
Where more than
Six billion naked apes came from.

The stork delivers
Cloned babies
From heaven
To fill our armies
But that’s a secret too.

Part Three
A family gathers
Around kitchen table eating
Talking about life
Learning meaning of love; sex
Grasp to be a roll model