Gland

Illustration by Julia Gapeenko

<a href="https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/gland">Gland Vectors by Vecteezy</a>

My prostrate

has been great

I owe it much pleasure

Would that it live forever.

Alas, this gland of mine

now finds itself in decline

So says a man

who does not want to be less than.

The diagnosis of a tumour

has cut into my humour

While I know I am not alone

I feel nervous about a future unknown.

I say to my prostrate

this situation does not make me irate

Even less do I feel hate

at this turn of fate.

That said, I would prefer

that this gland so dear

would be less on my mind

and more at the service of womankind.

(January 2022)