To the Women I Secretly Want

Because on that Sunday morning in 1954I saw a cartoon chicken run through a fanand lose all her feathers while squawkinglike my mother and because I openedthe Daily News to see a B movie actressfrom I Was a Prisoner of the Kremlinhaving her head shaved smoothso Stalin could lovingly stroke her scalpand because I felt the shock of my penisgo stiff in my Buck Rogers pajama pantsand because I made a hole in the pocketso I could secretly hold it to make it go away,I have loved your shiny heads for longerthan I have loved my wife.