by MK Punky
These fine fellows with their wattles and their medals
Their jiggling jowls and joyless eyes
Broadcasting breaking news from the feeding trough
Where these fine fellows congregate and cogitate
These Alphamen oozing oleaginous charm
Any cute ambitious telegenic girl with a healthy appetite for achievement
Could hardly resist
How unpleasant and unkind and unthinkable really
For men so animally attractive and magnetically handsome as
These fine fellows with their wattles and their medals
To be accursed and accused of “sexual harassment”
Sexual harassment
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
When every watcher in the world knows
These fine fellows with their wattles and their medals
Are more or less
Irresistible
MK Punky was a founding member of the ’80’s hardcore band The Clitboys. The author of many books, most recently the novel The Termite Squad, and the winner of the 2016 Barrelhouse Prize for fiction, he serves as poet laureate of Vista Street Community Library in Los Angeles.