Still answering questions

about Selective
Service, even though
if there was a draft
your cock and
your tits would dis-
qualify you:

even
with all
the bodies they need
for this busy
season
of wars, yours
will never
be useful.

Where is your body useful?

On the internet, where you’re always welcome
in the places where men file in
to stare though what they think
is your keyhole at what they think
your body is.

In a classroom, where you belong
at the head of the class
displayed on a table
as students file in to write papers
about what they think
your body is.

In the movies, where you always have a place
on a streetcorner, then a slab
to make a neighborhood look filthy
for being home
to what they think
your body is.

In your own room
curling like a vine
into a body that looks
a little like yours
asking your lover
politely, sweetly
to share with you
exactly what
her body is.

   — Rachel K. Zall

(Source: radiosilent.org)