how many how many how many
how heavy how long how often
it seems that quantifiable data
the sexual statisticians’ obsession
gains greater credence these days
than other more interesting
but less observable details
weight, age, length and span
unmeasured goes the heart
some things unnumbered
may still engender thought
racking up one hundred different partners
in a series of damp unsatisfying squibs
feeble penetration or the invention of it
before a disposable ejaculate
is perhaps more definable
than our pleasures and tastes
and the torque of two opposing bodies
compassion is nothing to the accountants of desire