The Day before Saint Valentine’s

The Day before Saint Valentine’s 

For Granddaddy Baxter Wilson

The doctor’s forms do not require to know

If you have been a criminal but need

To say if certain parts of you now glow

With viral love and whether manly seed

Shoots tinged with fun you never should have had.

The forms propose protection for your wife

And daughter (if you are that sort).  How bad

You are is not the clinic’s aim in life.

The sex you have with others (Can you count

That high?) . . . so what?  And do you really want

To put a knotch in It each time you mount

Another lucky woman with her slick, slick cunt?

  Do you remember all the women, Sues

    And Lolas?  Do you dwell upon their ooze?

~ Phillip Whidden