Forget 33
17 is prime
knew it all
then
no-nothings
now
love’s turned to
luster
future’s less full
a half-eaten pot pie
that’s already lost
some of its
steam
And it seems
every dinner guest
pops out of a painstakingly greased
bunt pan
in uniform silhouettes and sizes
The tall stopped reaching
for rings
— brass or otherwise —
some time ago
The shortest men bear the biggest cocks
The biggest dicks are the biggest dicks
Walk the street
and watch the men watch women
But we never do
because we are watching the women
too
Surveillance works best when self-imposed
We wait to boil
But we rarely do
Confectionary concoctions are mouthwatering at lower tempers
that neither simmer nor burn
but merely melt on the simple palates of
The fairless sex
Oh we consume too
and self-sort according to
Who is fairest
of them all
Generations of women
Disneyfied
not dignified
more concerned with standing behind
The biggest dicks
than brandishing them ourselves
Screw penis
envy
Let us not be castrated by apron strings
But rather sing
of self-promotion
Not a very feminine quality
for the dainty lot
’tis true
But the only one that will get us
a
head
and make something more of this life
than cookies
Rich, L. E. (2006, July 17). Cookies. Leigh Rich Freelance: five2seven.