Scott Weiland sings to me in performance once dedicated by Michigan Bryan years before his building caught on fire and Scott Weiland had died.
The Weiland ghost does not understand, continuously encouraging me to watch Lost in Space on his television, which makes me smile the saddest of sad smiles.
One charming copy of a beautiful dead man’s soul does not resurrect all the beauty we have lost.
Written by Jason Wright November 29, 2018
For Bryan Alfaro, who introduced me to Scott Weiland’s “Barbarella” in a most appreciated fashion.
Beneath the great city lies curious Underland, Where the man on the train takes up three seats with unabashed manspread…
He’s not unattractive if I squint with his head between his knees in relaxed, if awkward pose.
Why does my brain always sexualize everything?
Oh. Right. I’m a dude. Sometimes I forget.
In my sex starved brain he’s a nameless bathhouse hookup: “Lose the towel.”
But wait! – The way still life subject just crossed his legs is decidedly GAY and I realize the object of my fantasy is actually cruising me, even as he clears his throat near mid Central Park and his bathhouse counterpart spreads himself open to receive the affections which his flesh and blood inspiration would clearly choose to enact. Only this man is taken and White Rabbit late.
Strike the match. Strike that. Strike up the band and burn us to the ground.
Listen to nothing. Listen to no one.
The deaf, moved by deepest vibrations, rise up to meet us betwixt silence and cacophony; teaching us how to feel and interpret the words they can’t hear but feel with a depth which we sometimes lack.
We are blind and struggle – reaching out to recognize the face of reality – the face of the universe – inverse infinity – infinite perversions of intended design.
Revelation yearned for is as momentous as imagined… if only for moments which we believe were imaginary.
The boredom of youth relieved by seduction – no love or lust; just blissful destruction – just practice; no hardship; no need for regret – just beautiful lips of boys he’ll forget.
Beautiful boys together in boredom – the time of their lives in self enslaved whoredom – beautiful boys who’ll one day be men – who dreamed they were toys when they would be again.
I have the sickness. I have to express. I have the thickness. I have to confess. I have the wetness. I have the shame. I have been sexless. I have been stained. I have been tested. I’ve been observed. I’ve been suggested. I have been heard.