FAG/HAG SERIES: FREUDIAN TONGUE

by Bryan Borland

Lately she’s been misspeaking,
mother instead of matter,
milk instead of tea.
Yesterday she admitted
to having a new fetus
instead of the fetish she intended,
which is a ravenous interest
in twenty four year olds.
When gay men come out
later in life,
they often experience
a second adolescence,
as they never had a first.
It’s the same, really, for her.
She buys sexy lingerie,
shakes out her luminous hair
and prowls,
thirty-one divided by two
is the new fifteen and a half.
The cougar by moon,
in sparsely furnished apartments
or short drives to different zip codes,
is by day, by Freud,
calling to invite me to a pregnancy
instead of a picnic.
She just laughs at her oral
slips and fucks.
Her biological clock is ticking
like the girl’s got Tourette’s.

© Bryan Borland