Spread like a vestal virgin,
an offering for the altar
of medicine. The Filipino orderly
shaves the wire covered testicles.
Depilation comes at a price
as balls languish purple,
aubergines on tomato ketchup
bled from the twin sachet.
Bluntness of razor and lack
of Gillette shaving foam leaves
an unscratchible itch no caress
could soothe. Piss whizzes
amber through a clear catheter like a train
ploughing through the underground.
R2D2 fucks my flattened lungs to life with oral
forcing oxygen down a parchment throat.
Cannula stick me, pierce and prick. Ready
to suckle at me if I sleep.