Gay Love Poetry by Neil Powell (ed)

Author:Neil Powell (ed) [Powell, Neil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0786704691
Published: 2019-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

There is not a picture in this.

Anyone who painted that street

would miss the closeness almost completely

of its ordinary grandeur, and

in trying to write about it like this

I acknowledge how far I am

from being a part of what I want.

Listen to the meaninglessness of this:

I want an ordinary boy,

a fishworker in jeans or overalls,

boots and the stench of fish,

splashed with the skin and guts of fish;

I want to drink with him

in a fishermans pub on Freeman Street

and lose myself to the same stupor

he spoke through when we stopped to talk

outside the Kent Arms a week back.

If there’s a poetry in this

is it to do with the beauty of being there,

the realistic people stunned by alcohol

into serenity and community, or is it

an educated outsiders tragic desire

knocked against the concrete of a hard world?

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