Old Poem, #2

New Orleans spray paint ghost
Photo by Pamela Weis – New Orleans spray paint ghost, November 2018

Nipples
Why do mammalian males have nipples?
He posited
Quoting St. Augustine
He was not a biologist
She said that she did not know
He said
They are aesthetically pleasing
Only a god could have thought that one up.
She was not convinced.

She said
Don’t males lactate sometimes?

– Pamela Weis, 10/06/2009