Mateo Amaral is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area currently living abroad in Central America. His work will be appearing in the upcoming Winter 2010 issues of the Dirty Napkin, Eclectic Flash, Bird’s Eye reView and InTravel. Mateo is currently working on a second novel as well as a book documenting his experiences traveling through Central and South America for the next nine months. You can keep up with his adventures on travelblog.org. He currently lives with his wife in Playa Flamingo, Costa Rica, but will be moving on soon.
Part of my penis is missing
It’s not the end of my sex life
It just means that a few thousand nerve endings
Intended solely for pleasure
Are now gone.
I just wish the reason
For this mutilation
Wasn’t as far fetched as:
A guy
Who lives in the sky
And his dead son
Both feel
My baby dick
Must be purged from sin
I might have been okay
With any excuse
But that one.