Latex
Gabriel Duncan

it lays in the corner
perhaps under the bed
dried, shriveled up
see-through red

my friend told me once
that it glowed in the dark
but i didn't see a thing
when I took a walk in the park

ode to the condom
that little latex thing
a stop at the border
to keep the ecstasy from the sting

the rhapsody in wrapping me
please don't handle me so carefully
but your phallus is so callusy
i'm glad i remembered the ring

of course
just like the last time
the sweaty sheen
and lusty grime

all ashes and ashes
the beat of my racing heart
couldn't stop my part
couldn't count on it to bring
couldn't expect him to be clean
lean hard on me
and listen to the wisdom i'd impart
if yours weren't so crusty unclean
we could have had a hard-to-hard

for the times i never used it
primo brought transmittance
never thought it would have come
through in the first admittance
but riddance quickened ridance
and no talk would make me decide it
unless my confidance was weak
but that decision's still oblique

so ode to the condom
the robin is singing
ode to the common
the bobbin' the grinning
ode to the latex
how could i forget
and oh, to my ex
i haven't told him yet