Too tired
to eat.
Too hungry
to sleep.
Two times required
to multiply sheep.
Two eyes not closing.
Two for the taking.
Too wise / imposing for dreams
to be waking.
Written by Jason Wright
November 23, 2025
(10 x 2³)
We Are Not Safe
They came for them first
(in the middle of the night).
They shamed with their spittle
what they deemed wasn’t right.
They said in this place
we were safe;
we were right.
They said we were safe
then because we were white.
But then they called us monsters;
dullard spies…
and then deployed.
And the many stalled responders
lulled by lies
were then destroyed.
And the ones who thought to trust us
fought for justice;
thus were smeared…
as we find
that in this place
we are not safe
because we’re queer.
Written by Jason Wright
October 5, 2025
Remembering
Remembering me
remembering you,
Remember me
trembling and entering you,
You bent over backwards
to take me all in,
You spent all your watchwords
to absolve your sin,
You masked your own soul
then held me (afraid),
You cast me in roles
that I seldom have played,
To hide your respect
from suspected informants,
It was you who directed
my erected performance.
You who inspired
your own inspiration.
You who desired
your own devastation.
I thought you were certain
but you were pretending,
You brought down the curtain
and with it our ending.
Written by Jason Wright
May 15, 2025
For Andrew James Black
When Criminals Lead Us
Watching the news
I am chilled and I’m sickened
by thrall of the crisis
which made its debut…
These shocking truths
have filled me
and quickened the call of the righteous –
beleaguered and true.
Our government
lacks a soul or compassion –
our President lies
as civil rights crumble…
standing in judgment
of control collapsed factions
as reticent cries
from the heights
start to stumble.
The choices of monsters
enshrined by the truthless –
the respected & modest
are damned by their dictums…
the voices of sponsors
designed to be ruthless –
the elected dishonest
demand us as victims…
for we pay the price –
what they say is official…
when they spy and deploy
bad guys to deride us…
when they take civil rights
they make us uncivil…
then they lie to destroy
and try to divide us
with erroneous tools
who say they are decent
prejudice(d) preachers
who practice a skit…
felonious fools
who are simply malfeasant
excrement seekers
who attack us with shit.
Advancement aligned
with cheats for their cause…
incels incited for fear
they’re invisible
klansmen who hide
behind sheets and the cross:
indicted dickheads –
so (fucking) predictable.
To keep us confined
they miserably treat us…
We are maligned
but these imbeciles need us…
We are defined by our principals –
HEED US!
We must not be blind
when criminals lead us.
Written by Jason Wright
February 14, 2025
THE IMAGINARY THEY
They connect off the screen /
damage me.
They erect in between
me and screams.
I’m bereft and denied;
I’ve been left / they imply
and the world is not quite
what it seemed.
I’m destroyed and in vain /
they collide.
Can’t avoid this /
the pain deep inside.
I”m broken and alone;
I’m the only one at home
and there’s not a waking soul
to hear my cry.
Can’t avert this touch;
what it was…
Shouldn’t hurt me this much
but still does…
If I were whole
or I were strong
but I’m not and don’t belong
and maybe this is all I ever was.
Written by Jason Wright
January 25, 20205
What My Love is For (2016)
2024 Entry #63 11-08-24 “What My Love is For”
The description from IMDB reads: “A self-critical county boy must outwit the ruling class to save his ancestral home before the bank forecloses at the end of the summer.”
Okay.
Having been ill at the time, I didn’t write anything about this either – but I remember that it is not very good and that it wanders a bit. I didn’t hate the cast but the performances were sort of all over the place and the film has a terrible “ending” – I mean, it just ends and it feels more like they ran out of money than they came to a satisfying conclusion.
Oh well. I bought it on sale, with a coupon, so I only paid a couple bucks for it.
Naked As We Came (2012)
2024 Entry #62 11-08-24 “Naked as We Came” is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Richard LeMay (“200 American”, “Whirlwind”, “Children of God”). The film stars Benjamin “Ben” Weaver (“Daddy”), as Ted, a mysterious groundskeeper who lives with and cares for a cancer-stricken woman named Lilly (S. Lue McWilliams). When Lilly’s condition worsens, Ted calls her adult children, Laura (Karmine Alers) and her decade younger brother Elliot (Ryan Vigilant), who end their extended maternal estrangement to finally return home to be there for their mother. Lilly attempts to break down the barriers that separate them and several secrets come to light.
I had seen this movie once before, years ago. I remembered very little of it. I remembered that it was the first queer film I’d seen in a long time…
And that’s all that I have written down from the day I re-watched this. I felt like I enjoyed this more the first time through and that it isn’t horrible but that it’s not great either.
It did win a few rewards upon its release, including the Audience Award” for ‘Best Feature’ at Cinema Diverse & the Audience Award for ‘Best Overall Feature’ at Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Eighteen (2005)
Eighteen is a 2005 Canadian drama film written and directed by openly gay Vancouver filmmaker Richard Bell (“Two Brothers” / “Two Brothers and Two Others”) which centers on Pip Anders (Paul Anthony) & his grandfather, Private Jason Anders (Brendan Fletcher) as the gift of a cassette tape allows Pip to experience his grandfather’s eighteenth birthday as Pip experiences his own. Both of these central characters are straight but both storylines feature dignified respectful relationships with other men, one of whom, Clark (Clarence Sponagle), is a gay hustler.
At the time I first saw this, I mostly knew Brendan Fletcher from a series of queer inclusive films, including: “The Five Senses” (1999), “Rollercoaster” (1999), “Anatomy of a Hate Crime” (2001), “Touch” (2022) & “Everyone (2004)”, which is what caught my eye at the video store. When I picked it up I also saw that the film featured Thea Gill (from the second iteration of “Queer as Folk”), with openly queer legends Alan Cumming and Ian McKellen. I rented it and enjoyed it. I bought it for my collection, which I finally revisited on November 7, 2024.
However, I wasn’t feeling well at the time and I didn’t make a lot of notes or write anything resembling a review. What I remember is that I enjoyed this just as much as I did the first time, which was a lot. It is a very quirky, very emotional, very interesting film. And someday I’ll have to give it another go so I write something more substantial than this.
Agatha All Along (2024)
2025 Entry #60 10-30-24 “Agatha All Along” is an American television miniseries created by Jac Schaeffer for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of Agatha Harkness. The series is essentially Season 2 of the 2021 Marvel miniseries, “WandaVision” (2021) and shares continuity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Schaeffer served as showrunner and lead director.
The series features queer talent, like Joe Locke as the mysterious “teen”, Miles Gutierrez-Riley as the teen’s loving boyfriend Eddie, and Sasheer Zamata as the bound witch, Jennifer Kale. Queer icons Patti LuPone, Aubrey Plaza & Kathryn Hahn also appear in the series, and the past relationship of the latter two as title character Agatha and the mysterious Green Witch known as Rio Vidal, is an essential element of the story. The series also confirms the queer nature of two characters who were themselves introduced in the aforementioned “WandaVision”.
This series is a delight! I loved “WandaVision” and I love most of Marvel so I’m a bit biased. I do however know people who enjoyed this who were somehow ignorant of the fact that it is a sequel or part of a larger story, but I’d recommend at least watching “WandaVision” before this series – and if possible, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” between them – because these 3 stories weave in and out of one another – and all of them feature queer characters. I always hoped that one of these queer characters would be introduced but I doubted they ever would! And not only has it now happened, but it happened in this impressive puzzle box of a series that genuinely surprised me with several of its twists.
I should warn people, I suppose, that the ending sets up more stories, which is pretty typical of Marvel, but these stories have a good chance at being made as this series was a big hit for Disney / Marvel! Rumors persist that this series will get a second season as it was nominated for awards outside the “limited series” categories and Disney+ has begun listing it as “Season 1”. Additionally, an alternate version of Agatha (still seemingly queer) & Vision have already returned in an episode of another series (“What If…?”) and another alternate take on Wanda is expected to appear in Marvel Zombies in October of 2025 – while the version of Vision from the parent series is also expected to return in his own spotlight show in 2026.
Highly recommended! Especially if you’re a Marvel fan!
Edit: This series has since been described the the middle part in a trilogy, made up of “WandaVision”, “Agatha All Along” & “VisionQuest”, an upcoming miniseries. Again, I’d include “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” between ‘Wanda’ & ‘Agatha’ but otherwise this seems to make sene. The new series is expected in late 2026.
Life as a House (2001)
2024 Entry #59 09-05-24 “Life as a House” is a 2001 American drama film produced and directed by Irwin Winkler (“De-Lovely”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”) based on a screenplay by Mark Andrus (“As Good as it Gets”, “Otherhood”). The story focuses on a man who is anxious to repair his relationship with his ex-wife and teenage son after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
I’ve always enjoyed this movie, though its attitudes towards body jewelry annoys me as I have a labret piercing and I love it. lol The film is great though, emotionally, and it takes several unexpected turns. It’s not perfect, but it’s very good.
As for the queer content, early in the film, Hayden Christensen’s character is led into the world of sex workers by his frenemy and would-be-pimp, a seemingly straight guy played by Ian Somerhalder (“Rules of Attraction”, “Law and Order: SVU”) – who initiates an encounter between Christensen’s character and a john (played by Sam Robards from “American Beauty”, “Bounce”) – which is interrupted by the police – which becomes a key plot element later in the film. It’s pretty tenuous but it is there.