erudite and dirty.
--
Self-Portrait, Masturbating
--after Egon Schiele
by Steve Gehrke
Here he is again, distracted, lonely,
pulling at the doll-strings of desire,
fingering his sheet music of moans,
whispers, his holy name, the whole choir
trying to sing the body from its cave,
to ignite the risen body into flames,
though the self, to flee its own
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