my thing

my wife has a hard
time referring
to my sex organ.

she isn’t slutty
enough to call
it a "cock"
or "dick" or "rod"
and she says
she feels juvenile
calling it a
"winkie" or a "hooha".

she feels too
clinical calling it
"penis" and
calling it
"johnson" is
just plain silly.

also out of the
question are
"trouser trout"
"man meat"
"tube steak"
and "pocket banana".

she refuses to call
it a "peter" or
"shaft" or
"willie"
or even a
"weiner",
so she refers to it
as "it" or "that"
or "your thing".

but i don’t care,
really,
because it’s
better than her not
referring to it
at all.

 

-published in Babel Magazine