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steatopygia

Colin Pope


in front of the venus figurine exhibit
(an exhibit of ancient turkish
female fertility figurines) our tour group
listened to the anthropologist say that women with
big asses were evolutionarily advantaged because
the feast and famine nature of their food schedule
meant that women who store fat more efficiently
survived the few dry fruitless summer months
so my wife grins inwardly and glances toward the
few waifs of the group who worry briefly that
they're not perfect enough or less evolved so
i chuckle and step away and allow myself
to dream about the hunt and life and
my well rounded wife in the upper paleolithic
when she would not be so insecure and i
could say she's perfect and she could believe me
and we could live so tightly and free and our
euphoric love would make the wrath filled gods so
jealous and we would live so long and die so
honorably in the Catal Huyuk dusts where our
sun bleached bones would lay and preserve so well that
a man in a khaki hat could desecrate our graves
three thousand calm and peaceful years after
i told my super assed wife i loved her for
the very last time ever just so he can guess as to
why women with larger hip structure and
buttocks are made into tiny figurines
that the bony little public gawk and giggle at



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