Porn

I am 13
Exploring
The three-car
Garage behind our
Property a duplex we
Converted ourselves to home.
In the musty rafters I find hidden
Away a pornographic magazine
Photos of nude women posed
To show the symmetry of the
Female form with a quote
From Shelly under each
Photo and I am struck
By the beauty of the
Symmetry but how
Can this be the
Same as the
Grotesque
Porno
Magazines
Sold under the
Counter across the
World depicting not any
Symmetry but an ugly side
Of human appetite for an
Emotion more akin to
Dominance than
Delight in the
Human form
So I still
Am
Amazed
Both are labeled
Pornography but as
I grew up in the forties
And fifties I noticed on the
Walls of filling station garages
Or ice houses or places men
Labored barracks room bar
Rooms the Bunny Yeager
Girls, photos not really
Pornography but not
Museum art either
But some more
Popular form
To attest to
Popular
Demand
For pin-up
Art though it
Never showed
A Venus de milo
Other than a joke.
Why show half-naked
Women on calendars you
Ask but that illusion is what
We use to justify why we fight
Lilli Marlene to Betty Grable
Song or pin-up photo we
Are motivated as men
By simpler emotions
Than quotes by
Shelly under
Photos of
Women
Nude.