Selective Inhibitors

by Foster Gareau

I’m never hard by the time they reach for my cock

and they think it’s their fault


In the past that had been my only trouble in life

now, however, I have others too


I want to experience a non-linear buffet sort of sex

or to recalibrate the whole blueprint


I want to anoint them with orgasms

but my mind is distracted non-specifically 


I’m imagining towers with spires and castles

with town squares for the houses of peasants 


They cup my balls and I inhale

my own savory smell from their palm


Are we going to the movies?

There’s a stable with horses on fat crooked legs


Are we getting buttered popcorn?

They have angry red eyes and are urinating rivers


I’m not entirely aroused so I astral project 

into a recent memory of amateur twitter porn


I rub the back of my hand against the softest part of them

as if this is the entire coital act


I need you to understand that:

I’m as frustrated as you are


I need you to know that:

these goddamn pills have side-effects

Foster Gareau (he/him) is a queer French-Canadian, Montreal-based writer, bibliophile and recovering alcoholic with a degree in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. His work has been published in PRISM international, LBRNTH and Soliloquies Anthology. He writes every day. @feigns_