EFFRONTERY by Dennis Doph

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Let us examine the meaning of the word
Effrontery
Effontery is when you've had the boxing gloves on
One too many times
The laces won't lace up anymore
You don't have the punch anymore

Effrontery
Is when you catch yourself out of the corner
Of your eye in the mini window
Which opens when you Skype
The Bearfront Bear with the open window
Where the Stud should be is a trembling Old Fuck
Who has to wipe the age off his face
Present, with effrontery,
The smile of the seducer

Effrontery
Is when you bend over backwards
To create a false world full of false images
When the House of Cards becomes so huge
So unwieldy
It topples over of itself Engorged
Like a too-well-used cock too fat to fuck
or even advertise itself

Effrontery
Is when you jerk way too many chains
Of way too many men
Men who you know you never in your life
will meet
And are dishonorable in your pursuit
Dishonorable to those whom you really love
or really respect

Oh,
Just one little thing after another
Becomes a burden and a hindrance. it becomes
Effrontery

Then
There is that one tragic toke over the line
When you realize you've gone beyond sheer effrontery
Into a Dark Place where you know
(you've been there before)
The air is too dense too thick to breathe
without smothering
You have to get out of that Dark Place (again)
before you suffocate

Before you dishonor Men of Good Faith whom
You could easily bring down with you

....So hang it up. Stop the effrontery
I am stopping the effrontery. I am stopping

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