NaPoWriMo Tuesday, April 19th: Picture © Sergio A. Ortiz

The Illusion

You punish me to provide

a spectacle of excess—tamp

my testicles with affirmations

of your power. Your mannequins blow

and breathe urgency like naked

bald-hydras morgue

between Santiago and Lima

where desert sands are voiceless.

What is different between us

is the intensity of our attraction.

Oh, how many nooses

I've stretch around the necks of gigolos

at cul-de-sac social clubs

where cellos moan

and mouths wilt as I listen

to tangos and pick up sugar

dropped on the table

trying to ignore the blood

on my recently buffed shoes.

©  Sergio A. Ortiz, April 19, 2010