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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SIZE OF IT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the length of an average penis Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sexual Organs; Size & Shape; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sex Organs; Genitalia | |||
I knew the length of an average penis was five to seven inches, a fact I learned upstairs in the stacks marked 610 or HQ, not down in the basement where I knelt behind a toilet stall, waiting for eight-and-a-half inches or more to fill my mouth with a deeper truth. The heart grows smaller, like a cut rose drying in the sun. Back then I was only fourteen, with four-and-three-quarters inches at full erection. I began equating Asian with inadequate, unable to compete with others in the locker room after an icy swim (a shriveled but between my fingers as I tried to shake some semblance of life back into it). Three times a day, I jacked off faithfully, yet nothing would enlarge my future, not ads for vacuum pumps, nor ancient herbs. Other men had to compensate, one billion Chinese measured against what? Some said my cock had a classical shape, and I longed for the ruins of Greece. Others took it up the ass, reassuring in their way, yet nothing helped me much on my knees at night praying one more inch would make me whole. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WOMAN WITH TWO VAGINAS by DENISE DUHAMEL HYMEN AND DEATH by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) SENRYU: BLIND DATE by TIMOTHY LIU |
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