Gregory Woods
Poems (ii): Same-sex relationships, "Heroes flex their pecs"
Proust's Way
I’ve dignified a house of ill repute
With mother’s furniture. The surly brute
Who runs the place does so from mother’s chair.
The men who come to work there brush their hair
With mother’s brushes, backed with tortoiseshell.
Within this heavenly faubourg of hell
My mother’s son’s at liberty to clutch
The parts his mother told him not to touch.
His virile heroes flex their pecs and lats,
And while he masturbates they torture rats.
With mother’s furniture. The surly brute
Who runs the place does so from mother’s chair.
The men who come to work there brush their hair
With mother’s brushes, backed with tortoiseshell.
Within this heavenly faubourg of hell
My mother’s son’s at liberty to clutch
The parts his mother told him not to touch.
His virile heroes flex their pecs and lats,
And while he masturbates they torture rats.
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