"Where are your tits?
Haven't you started
puberty?"


Colossal breasted, hard looking women;
              coquettish, severely bleached blondes,
seductive fiery redheads and beguiling brunettes
with extensively lacquered hair
              teased into severity,
clownish eye shadows in blues and purples,
heavily-applied brick-shaded lipstick,
nothing natural here . . . .
              no blush without an applicator.

Staring on those garage walls
              and ceiling,
I see hordes of them smiling flirtatiously,
enjoying your gaze, beckoning their appreciative audience to
return their stare, to grow hard and excited from gazing
lecherously at their physiques..

Objectified women
wearing little else
but their ruby-red
smiles, heavy eye shadow,
false finger nails, spike heels.

Subjugated women touching themselves,
              fingers on erect nipples,
their breasts shoved uncomfortably together
by their own slick palms,
legs spread wide,

fingers holding shaved vaginas open,
              Close-ups of clitorises exposed,
              red as raw meat. 1



          "This is what you're
        good for. Take a look
        at those big tits, those girls'
        great pussies--that
        part of girls bodies is
        all that matters about
        them, about you."


Gazing at these women's beguiling eyes,
they beckon me to appreciate and crave
such raw nudity,
        they ask me to feel one with them,
instead
        I felt something wrong,
I felt pain,
and shame at the poses they struck.

He took visitors
to his shrine of women objectified.
Ushered in guests,
Offered drinks and chairs,
It was a social place
where men, boys had private discussions,
        women, girls avoided.




  "Come on into the garage.
I've got something to show you."


Unpleasant kisses and hugs lingered . . .
He, poser of painful questions,
possessor of hands that
hung around. . . .
violated a young girl's boundaries,
no thought to the harm he inflicted,
       those mental burdens forever
etched onto our brains,
       the fear and pain which resulted
       never goes away,
       even when we allow ourselves anger.




  "Has he had his hand
down your pants yet?
Are you still a virgin?"

No one stopped him--
silence and secrecy,
his protection.

Years later,
he had grandchildren . . . .
        two girls.
Pornographic pictures
removed,
his daughter-in-law insisted.
Objectified women pulled
from garage walls
by his brothers,
sister,
and spouses rather than
him.
An all day affair.

Why didn't
those pictures
get ripped down
for
me?
Mom said, when asked,
"Times change."