A man

A man checking out

the legs and ass

of a woman

who is also testifying

at his daughter’s rape trial

A man checking out

the tits of the 16-year-old

while checking out

Ensure for his bad wife

out in the car

the same man

who impregnates the woman he calls crazy

in the back of a van

while his also crazy wife dies at home

alone

an act of man

manual strangulation

as escalation

into his own sexualization

in a remote wooded area

where he feels he is alone

even when she was breathing.

I used to think the hands and looks in the man’s eyes

were the flowering of a union

but now I know

it’s just of them alone.