Sideshow Concessions by Lucas Crawford

Author:Lucas Crawford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, transgender poetry, gay poetry
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Published: 2015-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

They don’t know the gravitas required

of a fat woman who wants a microphone.

They didn’t see you as a teenager with a baby

decades before Juno.

Or the surgeries you had for the cleft palate of your youth.

Not even the abuse you sang through.

They don’t believe in ghosts like we do or

know those family spirits

that can refill a rum tumbler

when your back is turned.

IV.

Rita, do you remember the Heritage commercial

about the mine collapse?

An actor swears that they sang those hymns,

drank their own “you know”…

At seven, this frightened me,

but now I’ve seen a bit:

I’ve watched Ashley MacIsaac (1975–)

discuss urination during sex.

I still toe-tap to his first crossover hit,

and still watch the bit on Conan O’Brien

when he kicks up his kilt while going commando.

Yes, to queer kids watching at home,

a kilt can become a portal to another life not yet

witnessed or possible.

Step we gaily, on we go,

heel for heel and toe for toe!

I want to feel Ashley move his bow, dab at his brow,

wash his feet or at least buy him a pedicure

so that I can tell him the queer rural Nova Scotian diaspora

(don’t tell me it doesn’t exist, b’y)

needs him to survive because

my accent is buried in Banff now

and he’s the last member of my

trinity still (last I checked) alive.

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