Monday, June 27, 2022

Tommye Blount



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Arcane Torso on Grindr

We cannot know his legendary head,

now hidden by a peach. Yet his torso,

all ink and Equinox, is backlit from inside

the phone: hard math; a circuitry of low

fires—sexy algorithm. Otherwise

the flexed bicep could not dazzle me so, nor could

his cum-gutter's v, his barely-shaved thighs,

nor his bottle rocket all set to flare.

Not on this phone, he doesn't have any face

pics to trade, nothing above the shoulders.

But his chest—bury my face in that fur!

Would not he, were it not for the cropped selfie,

arouse like a porn star. He says your place

or mine. I must lie about my life.

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