Wess “Mongo” Jolley

   Poet, and Performance Poetry Promoter
   The Raw Heart of Endless Fascination

 


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Hot Wax


The sign says "professional waxing"
    bonded and certified
And the sweet young salon girl smiles and welcomes you in
        
But I hear screams in dark cells
    I see
bodies stacked like driftwood
    And suddenly she
            she's Lyndie England with a leash
        whose prisoners whimper
    and clutch crotches now
                    smooth and
                    clean and
                    pink as a stillborn baby

I mourn the loss of your
        throwback hairy ape shoulders
    now ripped out by the roots
        your back waxed like you're a Camaro
    that dreams of shining in the sun
            Your flanks wiped clean
        like a damaged surfboard
    or old downhill skis

Why do we flee so madly
    from our dropping testicles
Is it to somehow rush
    the evolutionary clock
        desperate to become
    the Blues or the Grays
        aliens with almond eyes
            thin bony knuckles
        and skin so smooth
                    so blank
                    so white
                    so plastic
    that no self-respecting follicle could ever
        find the nourishment to sprout?

Well I say no!
    I shun the
        Abu Ghraib salons and
    Guantanamo treatment centers
        in favor of
            my pudgy splotched
        and magnificently hairy self!
I exalt in the glory of lingering upon
    the evolutionary road
                    half ape
                    half alien
    with snowflake patterns of fur on my belly
        that march proudly up my back
    and rush down through secret adventures
            in the canyon of my ass
                to finally make camp
            in a swirl of shaggy
        glory around my magnificent and heavy balls

Hail testosterone that seeds the fields
    of my weighty carcass with a crop
        to feed my lovers for a lifetime!

I throw a kiss to my neanderthal ancestors
    and suck lustily upon that thick and musky sasquatch
        whose DNA still flows in my veins
            and spurts from my loins
        to dry crusty and sharp in my atavistic fur!

Let the supermodels run screaming
    the barbarians are at the gate!
        We're leaving scattered pubic hair
            on cold urinal lips
        curly ass hair on the soap
    and a heady sweet brew of piss and ball sweat
        to caress your toes in the morning shower

I defy evolution!
    Or at least I stake my claim at this point
        along the road from ape to alien
    and refuse to go forward
        one more lost follicle!
I sit my ass down on the hot pavement
    the wind rustles my fur
        clothes tossed into the sea
    hard hairy cock pointing proudly skyward
        from its scraggly nest of
                    unwaxed
                    unclipped
                    unshaved
                wild ass beauty!

And you
I hear you're going back in two weeks
    for a little "clean up"
Well, remember this:
    when the Gods inevitably flush us all away
                    and they will
    You will slide compliantly down to the sea
While me?
    I'll get caught in the drain
A vantage point from which I can
    curse the Gods one last time
        with my
                gurgling
                putrefying
                hirsute
        defiance!

    Desire is sharper than razors!
    Passion is hotter than wax!