The man reviewing photos of himself
these are not compromising
he had taken far too much care
in the image-making for that
and how it had felt then
the pleasures of entralia &
penetration &
places on bodies that could not possibly
represent their owner
but which had such perfect stories.
the more numerous pleasures
on seeing them again
that followed
through the psychedelic prism
of self
and the grim whirrings &
bell-ringing
as if
millions of cells --
wild with libido
& so full of themselves--
were the prostate cancer
penetrating him with equal desire