IN THE NAME OF

In the name of Madonna,
Tanaquil, why do you find it necessary to ruin
Marvin for love? Now he loathes
the streets of his city who used to delight in running them;

Marvin goes bowling no more;
no longer does Marvin drag-race his Buick on the back roads;
no longer does Marvin slurp
sweet wine while playing jokers wild with pals from the department.

This was the manly Marvin
renowned for drinking a case of Hamm’s while going four for four
or making strikes with one hand
while spilling a Seven and 7 from the hairy other.

Now he lies low, Tanaquil,
concealing secondary sexual characteristics
that were famous. His mother
dressed Achilles as a girl, to keep him from dying at Troy.