I need to sleep but the boy in the field won’t leave me in peace or admit that he’s real so I can’t close my eyes until I have captured the verdict of spies that has left us enraptured by twig and by leaf by bird and by bone by fall of rain water and on him it shone… the boy in the field may never be real but he looks like another and they have each other.
She’s safe, if not whole and he’s unwanted, broken & insane.
Insanity may seem like a good cause for forgiveness or comfort but it’s actually a piss poor substitute.
Quivering on shattered legs, his spine broken by revelations gained in his “fall” from a great height… he fell so far and landed so hard yet he has never recovered from the truth of his actions.
The smile from the rickety defenseless monster seems so sincere that others make note and inform me of his safety; his well being; his painful continued death rattle.
This skeleton shell of a scarecrow man once preached sex and brimstone, starvation and salvation, while his inverted path to heaven would save us all even as he damned us to this forever Hell.
New location for poetic censorship is discovered days after Facebook nudes are similarly desecrated… Artists MUST be mad!
I think of Sour Girl Shawn as I pull on Stone Temple Pilots and walk to the train on my journey to Brooklyn.
I bring tracks from CD #3 and Mood Swings sing me to poetry between 168th & 145th.
I can’t remember attraction to Boy in Orange; attraction died ages ago without my notice… Still nice to see him if I’m ever so lucky.
Scribbler illustrates the back of my mind as I tunnel through Manhattan to deal with angry humiliating disappointment which I refuse to surrender to despite the temptation to ralph on the sidewalks of NYC.
Gay brother is hurried, frenzied and anxious with no hint of sexualized identity beyond godly reunion with labyrinthine daddy issues.
He speaks of personal demon monsters that come for him and I wonder do psychotropic medications rob him of sex like the monsters that snatch him away; like Gobblers forcing spiritual circumcision on unsuspecting Golden children?
He teaches, reaching out to a fragmented world for a mythological unified self that I can’t quite believe in despite of it’s appeal.
In snowcapped Vermont artists interpret MADNESS in nine songs that jangle pleasantly through my short term memory, where they fade away to nothing, save vaguely happy impressions of experiences I wish I could hang on to for longer than Ambien will allow.
Xanax RATTLES in my pocket as seemingly female child rearing occupant makes other passengers noticeably uncomfortable… the smell of talcum powder makes me think of boyhood erections and vaginal cancer.
The sound of “Kryptonite” comes from 3 Doors Down and I’m dragged back to San Francisco drunken backseat passenger ride from one unknown location to another. THE MAN beside me is wearing my black clothing, my leather collar, while I am wearing someone else’s dress…
What ever happened to that Dorothy looking shit?
So intimate to see him wearing my goth rocker drag while I feel the cool autumnal chill on unwieldy knees which have never felt more naked.
…My Head Is Spinning…
Gay gangster rap pours into my brain as latex allergy flashback rips me in half on preacher boy’s beautiful blonde cock…. and that last time was totally worth it.
The Midrin has thankfully done it’s ruby stained work; Thank you Peter Murphy (The Scarlet Thing is actually in me) and I’m dancing at the Kit Kat Klub where all orientations are surprisingly segregated when angry heterosexual cis-woman calls me a faggot before I turn to make out with her stupidly aroused boyfriend just to spite her.
Off the train and I stop at random village pharmacy for cough drops before Jumpin’ Jack Frost tells me we’re done: just 2 more meetings and out… I’m lucky it’s still Tuesday because I’m gonna need a drink.
“Do you want to begin?”
Back in the dress I wore so preacher boy could see me naked, and I have no idea that 18 years later, on the opposite side of the country, I’ll still be scrawling about him singing “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered”, “When You Wish Upon a Star” and assorted unspeakable lyrics that he traced across my unguarded vulnerable ambition.
This part sucks but it’s just a draft and doesn’t need to be as perfect as Cocaine Sex in countless naked backroom dance parties… bodies writhing in dark congress, riding waves in darkened corners – pain, disappointment, lust & loneliness expressed in acid light, opium torture and heroin bliss.
Feed me water. Slake my thirst. Let them drink wine!
My faded dream memories are highlighted by sexy black and white music videos
and yet his defenseless freckled skin, his sensitivity to illumination and to touch, to my mistakenly hurtful turn of phrase, not to mention the weak and tremulous light through his lambent luxurious locks…
All of this to illustrate through those color coded passages, confirming what I knew was truly blushing and divine.
The achromatic ginger waited lifetimes to be mine.
They struggle through spin, repeatedly heated, Spritely ghosting across the years to inspire long after intentions are forsaken, forgotten and buried.
The contradictions are too numerous to name as each star burns to nothing plummeting from the inverse sky in a brilliant spark unseen but heard in echoes of erotic aural bliss.
Not all brothers need be the same or enraptured by the mirror ball illumination glittering on the skin of our shared origin story.
The aspects of dissimilar experiences guide us to drastically different outcomes as we are nourished (and sometimes poisoned) by the same rainbow roots.
When you walked in to Starbs with my man on your arm in your charmingly gay jeans, I smiled and I thought that this could be fun.
I ran into an old customer who told me about his son’s tumbling class as I watched you both ordering coffee, with an easy, relaxed manner, that spoke volumes of what was to come.
Your sing song ramblings were the essence of adorable and you seemed younger than your pictures, while also managing to look completely different from whatever angle I spied you from.
We agreed on Buffy’s Gift and disagreed on LGBT actors, though not in the typical, angry, grating way, which Aaron and I had just discussed in relation to a similar friend, who has already secretly been mentioned here.
We had matching board games which we managed to win before I took pain killer when I expected no more games to be played.
This, aside from the tongue fuck of a kiss which was seemingly dared and then shared without mercy.
Later, that other kiss on the kitchen counter, and you were the ghost of Sean Mobley, whispering across my skin before we all retired to the place I expected us not to go… which in all fairness, I had insisted on.
There were obstacles to overcome but in a relaxingly hazy, lustful way, or that’s how I experienced it at the time.
Your sexy ass, which I yearned to devour, was sadly out of service… and my painkiller infused erection was quickly down for the count, yet your beautifully thick dick and mouthwatering sack were open for business.
I did fucking love your sex drenched cock, stretching me open after riding your face like you were some kind of bucking bronco.
You were energetic, switching positions, still looking different from every angle, painfully / pleasurably thrusting deep inside me, filling the rubber with an impressive load of cum.
You left soon after, since you don’t like to cuddle, and the two of you needed to be up early the next morning.
You took Ian McKellen (as James Whale) with you and we traded messages on this or that service but I don’t hear your voice in those words.
In these random exchanges it’s hard to tell what is real; hard to tell if we’re going to see you again.
Perhaps you really were just a shadow of Sean, come to sing me carols and wake me with a kiss.
But I’d like to talk to you again: face to face.
It’s not all about your dick; it’s everything else too; all those angles are views I’d like to explore.
My sentences sent to convey this seem awkward and desperate, but that’s not how they’re meant.
Like I said, it’s hard to tell what is real in the light of day; hard to decipher if what we experienced was the beginning of friendship or merely the end of a short, yet satisfying game.