The wingless thing
Man…
--E.E. Cummings
Most men use their cocks
for two things only:
they stand up pissing
&lie down ****ing.
The world is full of horizontal men -
or vertical ones -
&really it is all the same disease
But your cock flies
over the earth,
making shadows
on the bodies of women,
making wild bird noises
from its tiny mouth,
making music
& food for thought.
It is not a wingless thing
at all.
We could call Pegasus -
if it didn’t make us think
of gas stations.
Or we could call it Icarus -
if it didn’t make us think
of falling.
But still it dips & dives
through the sky like a glider,
in search of a meadow,
a field,
a sun-dappled swamp
from wich (you rightly said)
all life begins.