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Off the Nollendorfplatz
USSR was splitting at the seams
Before the Wall came down. Two more regimes
And no one will remember what it was,
Except that Baku’s oil replaced the Shah’s.
My homeland was the stairs and not the steppes:
Odessa. Vodka? Thanks. And with a Schweppes.
It was the Berlin Brits who taught me that.
And I teach them? Back flips, an acrobat
Might say, since I’m a top. One must give in
Only so far. I‘m not a knees-up Finn.
My friends who did go home when all four Powers
Pulled out are making book in their off hours
Or on the corner selling nested dolls.
I can at least buy better alcohols.
I didn‘t, you did? Well, free enterprise
Is not just umlauts on Big Macs and fries.
I‘m no dumb muzhik. When I had my pay
I‘d go to see--how is it that you say-The “People‘s Theatre.” Volksbuhne. Twice
I saw the Gorkii Tiefe. Good advice
On how to be flat broke and not to be.
It taught me my commodity is me.
In my small way I prosper. I sell sex
And then put on a Value Added Tax.
No one complains. Marx might himself admire.
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
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The P.O. in the Castro
You will not have to stand in queues;
There will not be a madding crowd.
Our homefolk need not wait for news.
We send no letters. We are proud
We cast them off by coming here.
Our cell phone calls are largely local;
Their billing, though, is no small beer,
For we are nothing if not vocal.
It’s well behind, that life of porn
In plain manila envelopes.
And one out here can be reborn
As porn himself. A while, one hopes.
Not everything, of course, works out.
Hustlers in time seem merely tramps;
A small town’s walls still close about:
No exit. But we save on stamps.
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Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest
A onetime neighborhood chain cinema,
The pornographic movie complex has,
Its street front unremodeled, much the look
Of any witch’s house of gingerbread.
It might well be an Arts and Crafts tea room
In phoniest Victoria, B.C.
Since what goes on inside could pass for rites
Of aliens, a more appropriate
Design might be Frank Gehry’s oddities
Scaled down somewhat, or geodesic dome
With mirrors on its inner surfaces,
The better to entice voyeurs, and, curved,
Enlarge endowments; be a Fun House plus.
In sex what is desired is not ideals
But templates: figures to be laid upon,
Be possible to do, and capable
Of frequent repetition. Sandman next,
Dew Fairy after, in the chosen wood
One’s lost in, any fantasy will do,
And of our hungry actuality
The Fourteen Angels, sexless, cannot know.
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