by LJ Frank
are not masculine and feminine
social constructs
to enhance the wanting divide
the imagination’s expectation
for isn’t a male simply a female
with a penis
and a female simply a male
with a vagina
or gender variation thereof
aside from minor attributes
of biology
ardor is a way of making a living
and the inserting and implanting
of one’s manipulations
with the breast but one example
of persuasion
along with the accumulation of emotional wealth
as the future eventually will be a thing of the past
a matter of adaptation to one’s environment
for categories inevitably lead to an autopsy
of human thought
with legs parted
and the head immersed
into the divine wetness
of the brain
the heart becomes a study in contrast
and context
and the existential arrives in sharp focus
perhaps genders and combination thereof
are unoriginal in the cosmos
while conscience and consciousness
are sparsely seeded
unevenly distributed in the star dust
of the living matter
embedded in rocks or perhaps monoliths
careening through space
but isn’t it inevitable
as the ancient prophet proclaimed
those who recognize their maleness in female
and femaleness in male
they will enter the heaven
spread out before them
less their separation leads to the pounding of chests
and before the ending arrives
as surely it will
the lonely gaze of awareness reveals
that the version of the planet
that lies before them –
is a draft of their own creation.