Gender Characteristics


so we had a few drinks
and I was telling him stuff about
my childhood and after a while he said
that sounds like penis envy to me did you
ever wish you had a penis and I said no
but I wish I had an ovipositor so I could
parasitize my enemies and infest them
with my larvae and he decided
to sit somewhere else
in a different bar.

©2001 F.J. Bergmann

published in Pavement Saw #7 and on CircleMagazine.com issue 35 fall 2005

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