I picked up a
strange tape box when my daddy
was moving things
out of his storage unit.

Depicted on it in many separate frames
was an orgy,
though that word would not come for some time.

Sex was already
in my vocabulary
because I looked it up
in the dictionary,
along with penis ( ding-a-ling )
and vagina (           ).
I wrote those words
as much as possible
so I could have
them in my imagination,
like griffin and unicorn.

Playboy showed me sex
before the tape box,
but only in the form of vanilla duets,
rather than as hypnotizing
bacchanal ( an episode
of Hercules: the Animated Series)