Try Again

In 9 days it will be 17 years
from the night we first met.

And though you discarded me
in a mostly cruel and senseless fashion
I still write & think of you often.

Some of the words I write are angry,
hurt, longing or strange…

And though I’m PROUD
that I refused to chase someone
who chose to run away
from me and our truth
I miss YOU
more than any other pain
that you have caused me.

Written by Jason Wright
October 9, 2018

For Mobley Mouse, for Theodore
and all the other names I’ve come to call you.

The Words

Whispering in my ears
in a memory I never had,
because I never heard you
but you sounded sad…
and the words that you spoke
were like singing beneath
the sound of your breath
and our rhythmic heartbeats,
and the song found me dreaming
of a man that I follow…
lost in the depths unbelieving
and hollow.

The day that you caught me
without saying much,
The way that you haunted me
there with a touch
that I couldn’t feel
save the dream of your sorrow…
that came to be real
come the gleam of tomorrow.

But you stayed with me singing
and circled around…
You gave me the bringing
and brought me your crown…
You lingered behind me
when others had left…
You whispered and signed me;
you loved me to death.

But that’s not the end
of our ghostly tale…
For you proved a friend
and mostly prevailed
when I circled round you
and found you still smiling…
I knew you were there
with your stare so beguiling.

The look and the dance
and the music: Slowdive.

The words are romance:
“only lovers alive”.

Written by Jason Wright
October 6, 2018

Redacted (A.K.A. Experiment #001)

Experiment #001 is blonde,
purely fictional,
musical
and a deeply hungry bottom.

Nothing wrong with that.

He has broken no laws
and this investigator finds that
he has shattered no expectations;
we have a pretty low bar here.

He arrives promptly
for down low dirty sort of movie watching,
needing and twitching
to satisfy carnal cravings
for satisfying chemical sex.

He inhales Jungle Juice
like it’s an oxygen tank,
allowing him to swim
through seas of endlessly
horny barebackers while never returning to
(and never delivering more than)
the shiny deceptive surface.

He forgets why he is there
and must be reminded
that he will not be taking
multiple cocks at once
during this session;
an apparent rarity for him: how quaint.

He says he feels sorry
for the “drunken dickless loser faggot”
and wishes for his inclusion…
be it from actual decency
or merely his endless thirst…
a question that is never truly answered.

His sorrow does not prevent him
from wolfing down various white substances,
although this investigator suspects
he may never return to the scene of this non-crime,
as even thusly fed,
he appeared to be suffering from withdrawal.

Recommendation:

Suspension of Experiment #001
until such time as he is recaptured. Until
such time as he rejoins the other experiments
we must find new test subjects.

Our mission is crucial
and must not be circumvented.

Written by Jason Wright
October 2, 2018

For Matt, with affection.

…That Aarons Well

Horrible night filled with horribleness
and nearly all of it feels like my fault.

can’t keep it down
couldn’t relax
couldn’t just take a bath
phone almost dead
can’t be listened to
trains can’t be trusted
even veins can’t cooperate

My timing sucks
trying too hard
to make it alright.

Phone charges while I stumble
in the dark
towards not the right theater
on not the Wright night.

But our paths finally cross
and the best photo is taken
which will sweeten this memory
as the horror fades
to dimly arousing afterimages.

Written by Jason Wright
September 20, 2018

For people named Aaron,
who somehow managed
to make this night less wrong.

Assorted September Scribbles (between 9/4 & 9/11)

Tired sleepy eyed transformation awaits.
The unconscious cut in line
but are more lively than I am
and I’m mostly awake!

I’m wearing scruff,
no makeup or jewelry.

Halloween may be every day
but will be celebrated more than 50 moons from now
as I remain here in my complete lack of drag
save my Joy Division shirt.

“Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.”

How much for a cup of coffee?

Just your self respect,
as I’m reminded daily
of orange shrimp with tiny baby hands
and the day I wandered
into his seaweed castle aquarium
to beg for sustenance.

Being stuck underground in the Heights
I should be panicked and pissed
about my horribly fucked up Starbucks drink,
but my Vitamin Water Whiskey mixture prevents this.

Luna Park
in headphones and I chill.

Whiskey
rushing through my veins.

Nothing
satisfies the bones.

The scrape on my hand
was unintentional;
one must not fist androids.

Mashup from decade ago
(or longer)
returns in Times Square.

My hands are blotchy
and I thought
the food seller bathed in Windex
but it’s actually asian hand sanitizer.

The hot random to my right is less than perfect
which somehow makes him hotter,
though he disappears at Penn Station,
undoubtedly reappearing for others
as he leans in,
kissing my neck as I continue to write,
still listening to Justin and Enrique
make love to one another.

Time to meet Monica
and ease on down the road.

(I’m returning The Wiz, if that isn’t too obvious)

“There’s no place like home.”

Written by Jason Wright
September 2018

featuring Monica Lane.

Sugar For the Pill

Part I: Sweetheart

He’s unlike any other lover
that I’ve ever had.

There have, in the past
been talented enthusiasts,
skilled contortionists,
beloved boyfriends
and romantic one night stands
but after nearly seven years
he knows me;
knows more about what happens INSIDE ME
than anyone who ever previously came that way.

With the others, skilled as they were,
there was always something more;
something secret transpiring behind my

           ORGASM
    CLOSED
            EYES

But by now he knows everything he needs to know,
which he uses to his advantage,
bringing me to my oft contemplated conclusion;
he looks at me with his insider’s knowledge
and he sees inside what others could not.

The path to my bliss
is a code which he has broken;
a cypher that my body,
my outward appearance
could never hope to betray,
for all the contradictions therein.

He feeds my desperation
with erotic confections,
candied pornography,
titillatingly told and suggestively supplied.

He says all the right things,
evocative, provocative things,
pressing all the right buttons,
pulling all the right strings,
whispering nearly impossible encryption,
like an incantation (if not a description);
such nectarous wines which some find grotesque
as my redolent rhymes at last come undressed.

And there, in the harsh light of spray,
as frenzied fantasy is glazed with stud honey,
he looks deep into my opened eyes
and tells me how much he loves me.

Part II: Sweet Dreams

I sleep like the dead.

A door slams
and I am awakened;
a scenario which has always made me sad.

Returning to consciousness ALONE is shocking.

Previous waking memory
involves being nakedly wrapped
in another man’s embrace…
he was just here.

My deathly slumber has robbed me
of too many farewells.

How do men disentangle
themselves from me so easily?

Perhaps when lulled
into a false sense of security,
I fail to cling effectively?

The most satisfying
sexual encounters
of my life
seem predicated on utter destruction
come the merciless
light of day.

Perhaps
that early sweetness

before such raw transformative
encounters have bruised us

is life’s deceptive way of
getting us all to take our medicine.

Part III: A Bitter Pill to Swallow

He says he’s been crying all morning;
that we’ve not planned this day well.

He wishes we were together.

We are frustrated that my thoughtfulness
was unknowingly seemingly thoughtless.

Should have asked for headphones.
Should have called when doorslam woke me.
Should have moved this appointment
but the confusing calendar info
has only recently been translated
and my therapist has no other window
so I take the car he scheduled for me
to the appointment he scheduled for me
and I hope for the best,
swallowing any bitterness
by remembering last night’s sugar.

Written by Jason Wright
August 28, 2018

For Aaron

Playoff

I deal out desire;
invite a new player.

Conceal and conspire
in light of betrayer.

I match and he scores
as he breaks all the rules…

As I catch on all fours
an outbreak of fools.

He tells him
he’s lonely;
I “can’t understand”.

He tells him
I’m only
a shell of a man.

He sells
controversy
to man who would take him.

He tells him
he’s thirsty
and I cannot slake him.

He whimpers and sighs
and admires our plunder.

He whispers these lies
to inspire my hunger.

He lays out the shame
that I’m hot to defray.

He plays out the game
that I’ve taught him to play.

Written by Jason Wright
August 22, 2018

To the Devil a Son

In last night’s sleep
the nightmarish visions
of not deluded sheep
simulate incisions
as the blue Nazi glow
in The Mountains of Madness
melt us like snow
and dissolve us to sadness.

In the unrhyming aftermath
of implied Aryan birth,
nazis are defeated and left for dead:
Good riddance to bad rubbish!

And being quintessential explorers
and seeing twin pubescent horrors
where the rhyming never ceases
as our timing falls to pieces.

But what may not be apparent
is that I’m the young man
in living dead film phallusy
who hungers mightily
for pleasures only
a sleeping captive human
audience could love.

I ask myself, if I am truly the protagonist,
then how might I also be this quiescent observer?
This slumbering host body?
How can I be this sleepwalking witness who follows him
through long night light hours
as he mouths disembodied flesh
which I recognize all too easily?
How can he be so real as to
feed my woolgathering desire
when it is I who nurses him through
his hungry nightmare adolescence?

I cannot answer HOW or WHY; I can only say
that we both know it to be true.

I grasp what I can as I struggle
to take it to the waking world.

Stolen movie set arthouse penis is
still pissing and cumming on cue.

Mark agrees it must be fake
as I swallow.

His earbuds are too loud
and though I put up a fight
I surrender in the end
and allow him his jam session.

Clive Barker is a blue/purple devil
in this portrait pictured novel –
the eyes really do seem to follow you, don’t they?

The motion comic images relay
our illustrated conversation.

Is he the devil or a saint?
A demon or a mutant?
X-Man or author?

You can feel him pressed up against you,
behind you,
where his urticating
perforating fur
penetrates ever pore
in pleasurable striation.

Before opening eyes, I wonder
is this Mark curved around me
or perhaps that blue devil, Clive?

I wake,
wrapped in Aaron’s arms,
there is love in every scrap of contact….
completion found in our oft referenced
flesh and blood puzzle.

His scratchy chest hair
pressing firm in the soft of my back.

Without disengaging,
I reach for pen and microphone
as I set out to capture
what languishes inside me,
a dream with much meaning
which can never truly be reclaimed.

Written by Jason Wright
July 31, 2018

The Jasons

I smell his impulse
from a half day away.

The hint of a riddle
in the half light of pain.

The soft siren song
that tempts me with silence.

The voice of the child
bereft of my guidance.

I see what is hidden
as I feel what he fears.

We share the forbidden
truth shed in our tears.

We are each other
in flesh father carved.

This child is me
and I won’t let him starve.

Written by Jason Wright
July 29, 2018

Safety in Numbers

Seeing these men
who never find themselves,
save in these sacred gay spaces,
who often actually lose themselves
in the overwhelming tide of acceptance…

That story, often read, was never truly mine;
a disconnect, which likely saved my life…
but perhaps, although I did the smartest things,
memorizing all of the rules
to this deathly game of life…
perhaps after all that I’ve done (or not)
I simply have survivor’s guilt?

I found my Fire Island / Castro,
found my Stonewall / found my Eagle,
found my Saugatuck and Folsom,
found my Pride in my reflection.

In the after wrath of AIDS
amidst the slaughter of my peers.

In the aftermath crusades
I came of age and faced my fears.

A generation’s gurney
closure fighting to be free.

A journey overwriting
what my story yearned to be.

Free to live a lonely man;
this glut tricked out obsession.

Free to be the homo man;
the slut without protection.

Free to be the ones in hell
about to hearse to college.

Free to be the ones who fell
without the curse of knowledge.

Free to pluck the pain from hearts
of seedy sly arrivals.

Free to fuck the pain apart
with no need for survival.

Written by Jason Wright
July 24, 2018

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