Nathaniel Sverlow

virtue

I hadn’t cum in three days
and so I had trouble finishing
when I finally bent her over

just before the moment of fruition
I’d get a migraine behind my right eye
my stomach would begin cramping
and I’d start sweating like an idiot

I felt like one of those backed-up volcanos
the kinds that were capped off
and building pressure slowly
over the centuries

and when I did cum
the result was more or less the same

the force of the blast
shot off the roof
leveled the city around us
and blocked out the sun

the shockwave of it all
caused cataclysmic earthquakes
the sudden shift in temperature
brought hurricanes
and flash floods

and the earth itself
spun out of orbit and
hurtled into the sun
and the sun hurtled
into the center of the Milky Way
and the Milky Way hurtled
into the center of all creation

and all that remained
floating in the void
was us and our bed
and our mess:
a lasting testament
and cautionary tale
of man’s virtue