Virility Can Become a Jacket
Virility can become a jacket
And not the kind that keeps you warm
Rather the practical; uncomfortable kind
That protects you from self-harm
Unless I sire like the rabbit
Knowing I'm impuissant to provide for my brood
Decent living and food
Due to the exorbitant number
Or unless I lie on a pallet
While my spouse works until they're as worn as a drabbet
While I all-day slothfully slumber,
Virility is extraneous
For I have nothing to prove
I am beyond the age
Of worrying about someone's rebuke
Besides, who benefits
From such a chaotic containment
Certainly not me-
I only end up falling into dissatisfaction; derangement
I surmise the beneficiary
Of such a catastrophic cascade
Would be someone whose maturity
Ceased after 10th grade
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