The face a man makes when he uses the word "vagina"

It is universal.
A not-smirk sidles around the corner of the mouth;
the ones who are more practiced at it
(but even, once, a male ob-gyn I went to)
squash it more successfully than others.
It comes out like a foreign word,
(I can hear them trying out "ennui" in a
tenth grade book report) or
like a first run at an expletive,
fuck, you know, just, fuck?
Even in written language the most jaded
or misogynistic fuck of a male author
can't fail to not-quite-smirk
when he writes it (Burroughs is the worst).
The smirk is integral for feigned gravitas, or
to lend a medical air, to insert a space
between a woman and her body
when a woman's body is the subject of scrutiny
which, let's be honest, is always
and is why the expression is universal.