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A-Plus in Minus Values
Authority and servant; cynosure,
Or pro of low profile, bartenders--most-Strike soon the balance their physique suggests.
This one did not. At under four foot eight,
No one was less a Munchkin, more full scale.
We are not talking Boys' Department here.
You would not proposition that had you
Not balls enough to take on Captain Blood.
A grim comparison. He's dead of AIDS.
"If you'd just polish up that buckle, Cowboy,
I could comb my hair in it." Or, "Down
Here I see the first sign of double chins."
That presence, it is borne upon us now,
Was kept up at some cost. For height, the slats
And bricks behind the bar; the low-rise slacks
Re-tailored so the pockets do not meet
Behind. A little of a midget's rasp
Was in the studied voice from time to time:
Control can only carry one so far,
And not, perhaps, to where he cares to be.
For that, choice enters, and to have a choice
Is measure of how far Hang Loose succeeds.
One afternoon, to hang in place a pin
Spotlight, I saw him climb a ladder. Rung
By rung he rose to more and more himself.
Staircases, Freud assures us, equal sex.
That ladder, then… And when the swung light raked
A whistling, actually applauding crowd…
What is the sound of Patient Zero clapping?
Was it not invidious, Zero,
To pick on someone so near your own size?
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The Albino on Castro Street
You will not find on any Hamburg dockside
So true a gene for virtual peroxide.
The eyes aren’t pink, thanks to the contact lenses.
Who go down lists are going into frenzies.
An item for collectors, unaware
His stock in trade is that Jean Harlow hair:
His platinum American Express card,
His entrée, price tag, and his Porno Press Card.
He’ll be picked up and passed from hand to hand
By bathhouse patrons jaded with the tanned.
And if the contacts go into their case
A blood transparent stares out of his face-The vision’s red, unseeing underside
That, blind to its own presence, cannot pride
Itself on white eyelashes, see-through iris
(Which some will comment on in private diaries,
As well as on the fadeout farther south).
Nine days a wonder, then it’s hand to mouth,
Made grimmer by a tale that got about
How, breathing hard, he popped his contacts out.
New items move fortnightly up the list;
Who has no contacts now, will not be missed.
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Cavalier Is What You Make It
From sheer perversity, or need, I drive a street
Where you, from sheerest greed, are hustling in fine sleet.
The ice is pinging on the windshield, your thick glasses.
You take them off and hurriedly run down your prices.
The heater in the car unfogs you. On the way
It fills the frequent gaps of our not much to say.
“I’m only hustling for the money to buy contacts.”
I only pick up hustlers to improve my syntax.
No yield is either worse, or better, than who sow it.
Our bed is warm, however, and how well you know it.
“Can I stay?”
“Not if it means another ten“
Toward noon I drive you back to earn a contact lens.
Now, I need contacts too. And if I chance to hear
Celestas in ACT II of Rosenkavalier,
Their softly sleeting motif of the silver rose,
I think of you, of that real sleet, and curl my toes.
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Do Not Gamble in the Service Club
Combat for you and garrison for me.
We drink to orders disparate as we.
“I knew that first time when I swa you, Ace,
You’d be the one with all the luck. In case
Not much rubs off, well, it was fun to rub.”
And I Diogenes crawl in my tub
Before the honest envy of the born to lost
In presence of the uses of the born to use..
Of late I am grown beery-honest too.
In thirty years I have not thought of you,
And least of all in those December days
On board my troopship, in a tropic haze.
No doubt in the assignment you were in
The haze of luck you had from me wore thin.
If you were killed, and mostly you born losers are,
It was in snow. If not, you’ve found a wrinkle bar.
I still spend New Year’s in the sun. My luck has held.
The islands where I soldiered see me now well- heeled.
I even play roulette sometime. And if
I lose is that your hold on me? Your gift?
A double zero to remind the hedger
Every bet is off, and he the wager.
A pang--it is not conscience--late but run amok;
A little taste of ashes, on the lips of luck.
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Exercise for Twelve Tones
"I'll bet that you've got ribs."
"Of course I have;
Who hasn't?"
"No I mean I'll bet they show."
"They show unless I put a lot of starch
In all my shirts."
"Who starches that stiff neck
You've got?"
"Ribs turn you on?"
"On you they do."
"Some places call it play-the-xylophone."
"I call it out the bad air goes and in
The good air goes. Or what."
"Well, some for hooks
And some for ladders. Me, I bruise."
"You won't."
"I won't if I can float my kidneys first."
"Two Buds, Bartender."
"How'd you get hung up
On bones instead of muscles?"
"Like you said,
It's some for ivory and some for gut."
"Or celluloid. Accordion's our thing,
Wouldn't you say?"
"Depends, Starch. Straps or squeeze?"
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Good Money after Bad
The unemployed young man, arms strong and torso tapered,
Has had his front teeth capped and acne scars sandpapered.
Extravagance or wisdom, only time will tell,
But it was that or join the Job Corps. Parallel
Careers in modeling and auto racing, say,
Are what he'd like, but aftershave close-ups? No way.
And, too, he's serving out a one year D.U.I.
The odds are, self-employment is his better try.
There will be competition. "Man, the street's been fierce."
But one can weight-train, buy another earring, pierce.
This world's extreme injustice pains us, keeps, amazes.
How few trust funds around; how many trust fund cases.
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He Decides Not To Play House
We aren’t exactly All-For-Love-The-World-Well-Lost.
The merest inconvenience is enough of cost
To put us off: the ash tray out of place; the light
Left on or not left on; a less than honor bright
Bathtub; and-- in its way unmeaning’s quantum leap-The unknown name called out in sleep.
Ignore it, since you can. You cannot out of hand
Ignore upon your back a scratching wristwatch band.
Wind-up or digital, better a short scar here
Than time trochaic on a pillow by the ear.
Perhaps watch-pockets were, for Lee’s dropouts and Grant’s,
How bonding took. The Elgin came off with the pants.
Our own desertion cult may fission but not fuse.
Or is a touch cold fusion? It might warm with use,
But habit is itself accretion that prevents.
For turf-confirmed Old Hands, street Arabs folding tents
And stealing is a clear best case.. Who comes to stay
Misunderstands the desert. “Built on sand,” we say.
Just now we are a meaningful relationship;
Are Siamese identicals joined at the hip.
The mattress-ticking too is something like a pain.
I may get up und lass die Uhre alle steh’n.
I’ll not deny. I like the sleep together bit.
I’ll never be lifelong practitioner of it.
As once was said in what would be a gallows jest
If there had been a gallows, “Sleep on. Take thy rest.”
(Not said of Arabs, street or otherwise. One finds,
However, night is cushions, coffee, ash, flesh, minds.)
Another name, this time my own. A toss in-place;
Turn; ashen-scented fingers inches from my face.
In full moonlight--I have a good eye for details-The Crescent conquers in the half-moons of your nails.
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The Imp of the Perverse
The world is full of men whose dearest urge
Is sex with Quasimodo or the corpse
Of Alfred Douglas or with Eng and Chang,
Whose own dear urges may not have to do
With hobbyists. (Well, Bosie's might have). Seek
And ye shall find; God help you if you do.
The only worse outcome is to suspect
That they find you; that you are some construct
Outside normality. Hunchback, be off.
Lord Alfred, put on boxing gloves and try
Kickboxing with the freestyle Siamese.
Do not, I pray you, zero in on me.
I, neither item nor collector, march
To one same drummer. Not, I add,
The Little Drummer Boy. I do not stalk.
Normality is the erotic point;
In what I am attracted to, that is.
Variety may be the spice of life,
But spices, you remember, came to be
From urgent need to hide the taste of rot.
Most hunting is for game already high.
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Incidental Music
The deaf young man is nonetheless
Inserting coins into the jukebox.
Not by alphabet, he signs
That he can feel vibrations. Doubtless,
But is that his only reason?
I approached him on the thought
He is a fan of Berlin jazz.
(Surprise: the Wurlitzer has Weill).
But as he makes a second choice
I see his method is not more
Than eeny-meeny-miney-moe.
It turns up Kitty Wells. If first
Impressions count, he’s made his point:
No one would think that he is deaf,
And, contact made, he goes from there.
Sex is, when all is said, non-verbal.
Note: I do not say non-vocal.
Leveling the playing field
Or cashing in on its extremes,
A muteness with a sound track scores.
In failure to communicate
One simply re-invents the rules.
It was the silent screen, recall,
That made “Great Lover’ household phrase.
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Maximizing the Minimal
From sarong
We went to thong.
Bravo! Brava!
Lava-lava
May give way
To more display;
Arab cock strap
End the jockstrap.
You who pad it,
You could add it
By the aid
Of surgeon's blade.
Find a boner;
Bribe the donor.
Cut or uncut,
Jew or Hun cut
Might fill the bill.
In living will
Is it allowed
For those endowed
To leave to less
So much largesse?
Small leaf or big leaf,
Adam's fig leaf
Ranks us yet.
Size counts? You bet.
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