tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22768952317709932982024-03-13T20:00:15.984-07:00SnarkeSnark 24/7Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1661125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-74177473181866075772013-11-11T19:53:00.000-08:002013-11-11T19:53:02.354-08:002009<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>ELIZABETH (2009)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There I was, my dears—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Entering the Gates of the</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There in a hospital—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That’s when she appeared—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Her pleasure at my Existence</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That was one of those—</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-72054595794607455242013-11-11T18:13:00.001-08:002013-11-11T18:19:06.003-08:00Elderly Fags in the Castro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>THE CASTRO</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The greatest expectation—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I suppose is that surely things</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>After all, my dears—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>DADT, DOMA & ENDA were</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Successfully adjudicated </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And yet in The Castro—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The very Heart of our</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The real estate creeps—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Are pushing out the Fags</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Our Elderly SF citizens—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There in the Castro District</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Usurped insidiously now</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Harvey Milk would’ve—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Been driven out of business</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-23548668694202503462013-11-11T17:30:00.000-08:002013-11-11T17:30:38.054-08:00Great Expectations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1947)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Not a very pretty picture—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My dears, being a rather</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Bitchy aging Miss Havisham</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But then what other Flick—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Portrays my bitchy aging</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So-called existence, my dears</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So much for being Literati—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Look at the tawdry list of</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>NYTIMES Best Seller Fags</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Wilde Boys coagulate—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>In the Style & Fashion section</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Lovely Feuilleton Fuckers</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>NEW QUEST FOR CORVO:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>AN UPDATED GAY BIBLIOGRAPHY</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>AND VATICAN PRETENSIONS OF GRANDEUR</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>TERRIBILI-GONZALES OF VENICE SOCIETY</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE MAJOR SECRET URANIANS </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>OUIJA CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BARONESS</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>SWEEPING AWAY OLD VATICAN COBWEBS</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>IN COTEMPORARY GAY BIOGRAPHY </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>OF A VENETIAN PROCURER OF PRICKS</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>(For those readers attracted to the ornate scurrilities of the Baroness’ HADRIAN THE SEVENTH and THE DESIRE AND PURSUIT OF THE HOLE, may I suggest researching the ‘merry magenta’ Miss Nelson McTavish who paraded as the bumbling host of the Palazzo degli Incurabili—a sly allusion to the old fag hospital of the sixteenth century that rises above the Zattere between the Ca’ Torresella and the customs point. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or perhaps Miss Corvo’s rather naughty dishy malice depicting the Salonnier, along with her usual rather tres laborious Lotte Lenya ‘Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales’ chit-chat, procuring much-needed money from her latest wealthy visiting patrons—such as a German prince with lovely onyx studs who talks of young Venetian gondoliers as if they were young gods from Olympus, going on & on with excellent English.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Plus a blushing white and scarlet mincing crumpled-corseted Oxford Academician, a shy Uranian devotee of the faggy Forbidden Fruit with her cretin-esque cockney twang, such a pitiful despairing, dyspathetic featureless British aging queen… but she had money to throw away on her last Aschenbach-esque fling before she finally not so gracefully fucking kicked the bucket.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>FIN DE SIÈCLE IN VENICE</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>More gracefully, perhaps though, how can one avoid being possibly or rather rudely intrusive in terms of all the exquisite gay biographies and papers of literary men fascinated by the Baroness Corvo— without at least taking a brief glance at this gay biographical gem— LIFE ON THE LAGOONS by Horatio Brown? </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It is Miss Brown who the Baroness Corvo despised and hated—basically because he was a man of means who could afford to take little for his writing and so spoil the market for the needy professionals. The long years in Venice financed by his fortune gave him an unrivalled sense of the place and its chicken, of the harmony and concord between the Venetians, their city, and the boys of the lagoons, of their perfect accommodation to each other. </i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It’s not surprising that Miss Brown came to history through literature—in his Oxford days the Chairs of History and English Literature were often held by the same professor. </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Was Horatio Brown like J. Alfred Prufrock—not Prince Hamlet but merely a subservient attendant to the Venetian Queen Bees? Merely an assistant to John Addington Smonds—merely an entertainer, impresario and landlord of the great and eccentric? An object of Miss Corvo’s scorn and a subject for the casual allusions of other men’s biographers?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Venice was notorious for discouraging hard work, as Henry James observed. The seductive ambience of young handsome gondoliers and romance there on the lovely lagoons was much too much for many gay closeted writers like Symonds. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Symonds saw himself as profoundly abnormal, even monstrous and dreadful. Unlike the Baroness, Miss Symonds hid his inner self—rather than flaunt his faggotry like grandiose queen bee Miss Corvo. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Not so with Miss Horatio Brown. It is Miss Brown who sends Robert Louis Stevenson gay translations from ‘old Venetian boat-songs’ and brightens Miss Stevenson’s sick room in Davos with his own lovely LAGOON LULLABY. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It is Miss Brown who waits with a gondola at the station when Havelock Ellis, fresh from a medical convention in Rome in 1894 takes a trip to Venice. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>To Miss Brown, the bitchy resentful destitute Baron Corvo was a sublime example of Venice’s self-portraiture beaming forth like a rainbow into new gay literature and thoroughly gay gauche gondolier romance. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It was during that decade which consigned Wilde to Reading Gaol that many gay writers viewed their gay gift as an’incrable malady’—a deeply rooted perversion of the sexual instinct, uncontrollable, ineradicable, amounting to the Vatican-esque monomania of the Baroness who exposed all the more reticent closet cases to the rebuke and scorn of most society.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But then over time more and more homosexual intellectuals came to Venice, staying there either on a permanent basis or for short periods—including the aesthetes Jean Lorrain and Jean Cocteau, the poets</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Some like the English writer Frederick Rolfe the Baroness lived on the lagoons leaving vivid descriptions of ow widespread and organized this gay tourism was. Not only were the Italian youths willing to satisfy foreigners’ desires with the prospect of earning some money, but in an illegal brothel where tourists could always find unemployed youths and hustlers “ready to be had” with everybody knowing about his lovely lagoon romance and business.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Some bottles of ink, pipes, morocco case—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A pair of glasses in a chagreen case</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>An old drawing-board of a large size—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Resting on my knees to write on</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The board tilted with a stack of sheets—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pages scrawled with my archaic scribbles</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But tonight my mind was empty, blank—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Irritated by Hadrian-esque hauntings</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I cultivated the art of looking—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>As though I were about to say No</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>You always can say Yes after No—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But if you begin with Yes</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Like I usually did, it prevented—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Me from ever saying No.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That’s why everyone swindled me—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’d been too anxious to give it away</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I had to butch it and be ugly—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ugly as my so—called colleagues</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I had to pull myself together and—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Be neither vulgar nor common-place</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I looked around the room seeking—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Something to read, something, anything</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Nothing too recent in my memory—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So I picked up one of my rejected novels</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I remembered how dejected I’d felt—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My self-conscious pose and romanticism</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It was a copy of THE YOUNG GONDOLIER—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My sense of beauty much more acute then</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I suppose I had this gay predilection for—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Young lithe muscular gondolier studs</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Reticent young gondolier lasciviousness—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Indelicate modesty desiring satisfaction</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Once satisfied, the door to his favor open—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That was the way with the Venetian youth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yet such a book as mine didn’t sell well—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Tens of thousands of copies my fervent hope</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But the world feared and ignored my novel—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There wasn’t enough delicate male modesty</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I looked at my work and looked at my love—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The manner of my portrayal of youth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I deliberately set myself to dissect and—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Analyze the way I wrote about Venetian love</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The normal type of European youth—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>At Oxford and Eton simply disgusted me</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pater and Hopkins and the other queens—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dithering away with Uranian closetries</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Their inadequacy and superficiality—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Making the young male tres omnipresent</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Worshipping them mentally no differently—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Than pretentious gadflies worshipping Women</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>While my gondolier boyfriends were real—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They were quite used to being sucked off</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It’s doubtful the Uranians even knew—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Anything beyond virgin little choir boys</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I was struck with sheer annoyance—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Such elitist British cloying closetry</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>While my Hadrian-esque pertinacity—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Obliged me to persevere despite them</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Oftentimes the influence of Venice—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Obliged me to pause and laugh</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>After long years of writing I’d realized—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Feline vigorous untainted Venice youth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>_____________</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Didn’t need any such thing as a novel—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A rolled cigarette, some money would do</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Meanwhile I counted the split infinities—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>In the latest boring Pall Mall Gazette</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I languished at my predicament—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>God had made me fairly intelligent</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But impotent and inactive as a writer—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Should I do travelogues not novels?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Novels must be done by writers—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But writers needed readers, publishers</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Uranians hid their scribbled poems—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Scuttling perfidiously, deceitfully faithlessly</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Disguising their fawning fickle love—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Crying courage but we have to suffer</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Like bashful bishops condescending—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Believe me, trust me, be closety</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yet down here in Venice there’s—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Room for indulgence & urbanity</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The British sun lacks splendor—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>While Mediterranean men are nude</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Do I merit exile as a writer—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>To be called a sinner, vile, shameful</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>While Oxford Uranians toil beneath—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The suffering Cross of Closetry?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yes, I dream of certain luxuries—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Wealth, cleanness, whiteness, freshness</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But is that any kind of reward for the—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Luxury of young sexy Italian loinchops?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Should I simply enjoy my happiness—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And vigorous serenity all in secret?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>All unostentatiously enjoying the only—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Success I’ll ever have silently, wistfully?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Why use success as a writer for myself—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And not share it with all the others?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>To be all-denuded of the power of love—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Loving anybody, being loved by any?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Must I be self-contained and detached—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Apart from the world of publishing?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Isn’t loving handsome young gondoliers—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Enough reward for having escaped here?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>How often I’ve been told by them—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That I was wasting my talent writing</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Such stolid stupidity forces me to pose—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>As strange recondite haughty foolish</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Gawd, I know what a sham I am—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>How silly if feel begging for some love</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But I lost all sense of modesty, my dears—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A long, long time ago in these fetid lagoons</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I worship, loathe as I please knowing—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A certain superb hard violent pitiless terror</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They frighten me but I can’t avoid it—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They provide an image that I can worship</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Therefore I pose for them whether it—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pleases, displeases or strikes awe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Generally they never loathe it—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There’s nothing wrong earning a lira or two</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It’s not wrong, very wrong anyway—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But what can I do but take them to bed?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Unmistakably and distinctly they tell me—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They tell me what I must do and I do them</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I take them to bed and we make love—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There’s no rosary in their trouser pockets</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That’s where I find the Lord in his Temple—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And then that’s where we fall asleep</i></span></div>
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<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPwNWznQDruW3jTJWsmloB3OkGm5RuhOS_RB6dCJdHcE3R7yBshOYWbYtvdvnCUS5DVMm_3_BkWQl1feEHciQAiQpRoYoTF3Gh5UJSZ5DYKQZvM2elit66dNkeu016FcSoc_mB2S6p_ppE/s1600/gay+art+619+Hadrianesque+copy.JPG" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>________________</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If they are meditating mischief like—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Some athletic and quarrelsome ones do</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>With an eye like a basilisk and a mouth—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Full of torrential Italian trumps to play</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Mischief? What nonsense—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They habitually engage in mischief </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It’s a way of life, a tinge of destain—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>For faggy foreigners greedy like me</i></span></div>
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<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPwNWznQDruW3jTJWsmloB3OkGm5RuhOS_RB6dCJdHcE3R7yBshOYWbYtvdvnCUS5DVMm_3_BkWQl1feEHciQAiQpRoYoTF3Gh5UJSZ5DYKQZvM2elit66dNkeu016FcSoc_mB2S6p_ppE/s1600/gay+art+619+Hadrianesque+copy.JPG" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>__________________</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But I can’t resist the young devils—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Going downstairs at once seeing him flee</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I simply must confess I’m not perfect—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I don’t do things out of muddle-mindedness </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Nor out of vicious wanton cruelty—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But rather out of pride in my own powers</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My powers of penetration and perception—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or perhaps out of mere culpable frivolity</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I confess I’ve been wanting in love—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Love, patience, sincerity, neighborliness </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Selfishness, self-will and a rather fatuous—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Desire to be distinct from other people</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>These desires nearly always unconscious—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I seldom deliberate on what I say or write</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I suppose I have a bitter tongue and pen—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I make jibes at my publishers and critics</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’m impatient with mental natural weakness—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Unless of course it’s attached to a gondolier</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I am insincere but sinfully not criminally—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I delight in bewildering others by posing</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sometimes as a font of complex erudition—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Other times playing the silly simpleton</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I confess telling improper stories—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Not of the ordinary rather revolting kind</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But those which are exquisite or witty—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or koprolalian-esquely recondite & smutty</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’ve never been prompt resisting temptation—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My desire for knowledge leads me to appreciation</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I study the male nude, gondolier anatomy—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I never have found male beauty shameful</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ugly, yes, sometimes the uglier the better—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Especially the uncut rather large ones</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Do I love my neighbor, hardly my dear—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Most people are repulsive to me because</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They are ugly in person and even more so—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They’re ugly in manner and mind as well</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Do I love myself, hardly my dear—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But I don’t think it really matters much</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I suppose I’m clever enough but—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Not half as clever as I’m supposed to be</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’m rather more a stupid ignoramus—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But as for myself, I despise myself </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’m not very interesting to anyone else—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I simply despise myself, body, mind & soul</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’m just an irresponsible human imbecile—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Posing as simply and innocuously as possible</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>DON RENATO</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“the work errs</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>on the side of</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>extreme distinction”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick Rolfe, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Baron Corvo, DON RENATO</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Please pardon me, my dears—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If my diction goes beyond baroque</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And perhaps wanders extravagantly—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Into rather tres risqué racy rococo</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What medieval fantasias overcome me—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>When puffing away on my hookah!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My mind gets scrambled with macaronic—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Italian, Greek and Latin dizzy divagations</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Concocting pretty words like progymnast—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’m just a slave who performs contortions</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Perturbed by pouty words like proterve—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Adjectives meaning “violent, wanton”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pube-esque as male puberty arrives—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hardly anything very prissy or modest</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>This day in Venice in our gondola—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Zildo awakes from his afternoon torpor</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>His palatial prick and ducal pubes—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Similitude to anguicomous Gorgons</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’ve developed a marvelous immunity—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Stung by his uncut exquisite fangs</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>DON RENATO</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“I had learned than historick romance</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>must be true, apparently if not actually, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>accidentally if not essentially, implicitly </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>if not explicitly. I had learned that the </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Form of it must be appropriate to the </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Matter in order to give it individual </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>existence; and that with these must be</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> included Potentiality and Actuality”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>DON RENATO </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I revolted, my dears, esteeming it apt—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And proper rabidly to inveigh against Str8ts</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Their tacky literary heterodoxies—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Affirming that I for one should be dead</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I preferred a dignified death by hunger—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Rather than to transform myself into a machine</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Filled by a pig, producing literature—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Paragonable only to sausages, flabby, flaccid</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’d rather be obscenely Uranian-esque—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Having tea, toast & marmalade with boys</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">URANIAN VAGABONDAGE</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“His Eminency says that you</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>may publish these naïve and</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>almost Dantesque and</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>sometimes quite Homeresque</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>fragments” —Frederick William Rolfe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE WEIRD OF THE WANDERER</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I suppose my dears—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There’s nothing quite worse</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Than Uranian vagabondage</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Being a Born-Again Fag—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The object of gay derision</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>By the Queenly Pantheon</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Feasting with Panthers—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Precociously Pater-esque </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>In this Wildean wilderness</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Like Baron Corfu’s—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Weirding of the Wanderer</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Daring debutante once again</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>LETTER FROM VENICE</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Let it be known that I</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>was called in an age yet</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>to come Nicholas Crabbe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>the Impossible”—Frederick </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>William Rolfe, THE WEIRD </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>OF THE WANDERER</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>How else to deal—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>With the Slings and Arrows</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Outrageous Fortune dishes out</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Tableau vivants—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Venice delectations</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Aschenbach’s laments</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Boss Cupid Venice—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Androgynous Theater</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Fag Film Noir Flick</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Miss Auden says—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Naughty, naughty</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What would Mother say?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>REINCARNATION RAKE</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“For I penetrated into </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>the occult arcana”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick William Rolfe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE WEIRD OF THE WANDERER</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Was it Sebastian Melmoth—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or perhaps Sebastian Nabokov</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Who gave me some advice?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Vassar novelist—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Had read CHICKEN (1979)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Back in graduate school</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“The Last Uranian”—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>He signed his lovely novel</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now in my tall bookshelves</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I do feel rather somewhat—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ancient being a Uranian again</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A Reincarnated Rake</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>ASCHENBACH-ESQUE</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“to commune with</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>long-dead sages”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick William Rolfe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE WEIRD OF THE WANDERER</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What’s worse, my dear—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Being a born-again Uranian</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or one for the first time?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Surely DEATH IN VENICE—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Is only one way to go there</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Languishing in a beach-chair</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or pretending to be a Borgia—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or a new Vatican Pope like</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Miss Baron Corfu pretended?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I simply can’t really decide—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A closeted Aschenbach, a Borgia</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or perhaps a new Vatican Pope?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>QUEER QUAGMIRES</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“enduring unmentioned</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>and unthought-of anguish”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick William Rolfe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE WEIRD OF THE WANDERER</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Doodles and ditherings—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Fin de siècle fantasies</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Tres rococo-esque, my dear</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And yet what else—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Can I possibly do now</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Daring descent and decline?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Lavish literary genres—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Decaying like human beings</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>English especially susceptible </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Why just the other day—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Detoured by some dithering delirious </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Diphthongs into a queer quagmire!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>PIZZA DELIVERY BOY</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“The sky was uniformly grey”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Alan Hollingshurst,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The sky was dreary-deary dinge—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So tres tragically depressingly</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Without any sign of sunshine—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Breaking thru the cloudy frippery </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The sun had migrated south—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Surely to never return again</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What I needed was a quickie—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A delicious douche of the divine</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Rather than dawdle away the—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Tawdry gnarly overcast day</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So I did what I usually do—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I phoned for some Thai takeout</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Something sweet and sour—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And then if that wasn’t enough</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’d call the delivery boy—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Pizza Slut Kid for relief</i></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-42721583102827560682013-11-09T11:20:00.000-08:002013-11-09T11:20:45.579-08:00The Quest for Corvo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><i>THE QUEST FOR CORVO</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Rolfe has the secret</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>of a staccato brilliance,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>of phrases that tell as</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>as much as the paragraphs</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>of others”—A.J.A. Symons</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE QUEST FOR CORVO</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Genius or charlatan—</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>C’mon now, really my dear?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Is there any doubt about it—</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Of course, indubitably, surely</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>You’ve sensed it by now that—</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Miss Charlatan is back again</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>No differently than my lovely—</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>THE WEIRD AND THE WANDERER</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Did you really think I’d end up—</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Simply dead in a Venetian gondola?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-40052751824706956272013-11-08T19:05:00.000-08:002013-11-08T19:05:50.116-08:00Don Tarquinio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>DON </b></i><b><i>TARQUINIO</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“the work errs</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>on the side of</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>extreme distinction”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick Rolfe, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Baron Corvo, DON RENATO</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Please pardon me, my dears—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If my diction goes beyond baroque</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And perhaps wanders extravagantly—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Into rather tres risqué racy rococo</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What medieval fantasias overcome me—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>When puffing away on my hookah!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My mind gets scrambled with macaronic—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Italian, Greek and Latin dizzy divagations</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Concocting pretty words like progymnast—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’m just a slave who performs contortions</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Perturbing pouty words like proterve—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>An adjective meaning “violent, wanton”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pube-esque as one arrived at puberty—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hardly anything very prissy or modest</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>This day in Venice in our gondola—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Zildo awakes from his afternoon torpor</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>His palatial prick and ducal pubes—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Similitude to an anguicomous Gorgon</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’ve developed a marvelous immunity—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>From his uncut exquisite snake-bite</i></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-83464531078601520152013-11-08T18:11:00.000-08:002013-11-08T18:11:00.601-08:00Pope Hadrian VII<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>POPE HADRIAN VII</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“the usual loungers </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>and pleasure seekers”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick Rolfe, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Baron Corvo, Pope Hadrian VII</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I was hardly disappointed, my dears—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>After Pope Benedict XVI abdicated</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And the Vatican didn’t choose me—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>To be St. Peter’s new Vivacious Vicar </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But it’s not I who had lost the Vatican—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It’s the Vatican who had lost me, my dear</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So when the Cardinals slank up to me—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I civilly shooed them from my gondola </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I raised my drawbridge and told them—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I was beyond parleys from the heights</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Never anymore would I seek them out—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Those stuttering little Chrysostom priests</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>With their Mad Hatter insane tiaras—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Right out of ALICE IN WONDERLAND</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I had my own Temple of the Holy Ghost—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My muscular young Venice gondolier</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’d rescued Zildo from an earthquake—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>After that we sailed the Adriatic Sea</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-66167014469074508232013-11-08T16:23:00.002-08:002013-11-08T16:23:54.090-08:00The Desire and Pursuit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>THE DESIRE AND PURSUIT OF THE HOLE: </b></i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A ROMANCE OF MODERN VENICE </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Truth is tarter than taradiddles;</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>and nothing is tarter, terser, than </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>truth on the track of tired trash </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>in a trance.”—Frederick Rolfe, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Baron Corvo, The Desire and </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>of Modern Venice </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I brushed aside the accumulation of—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Cigarette-ash from my smoking jacket</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Picking up a copy of the NYTimes—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Reading once again the news from Rome</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The NYTimes is a kind of subterfuge for—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Readers excluded from a view of the facts</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It said much but signified nothing—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hoodwinking, indulging in imagination</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Reading between the lines one can sense—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A tale of unparalleled ghastliness opening</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“How exquisitely horrible it is,” I said—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Something mysterious was happening</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Creepazoids were taking over—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Cretinism and idiocy on the upswing</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Mobs of lower class child idiots were—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Swamping and infesting the schools</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>People were manifesting defective things—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Like some abortion of the mind, lower IQ’s</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>These lower classes of idiots were like—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Altogether beneath the animal world</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They possessed not taste, smell, hearing—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sight or touch, they were human imbeciles</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Their degenerated brains couldn’t fathom—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The simplest syntax or pleasing dictions</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Simple words like “cagotism,” “latebrose”—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“dedecorous,” “physidoyls,” “vexilla,” “amoenely” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Succursale” and the verb “ostends”—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Were simply beyond their feeble child idiocy </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Actually though some of my best friends—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Are child idiot gondoliers down here in Venice</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I prefer them that way, my dear, for obvious—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And tell-tale reasons I shan’t get into now</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Other than to say that my favorite gondolier—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Drinks only wine and plies a mean oar</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Not that I’m a whore about rough trade—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But it’s such a refreshing change when</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Compared with my miserable egotistical—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Tres gay muse consumed with ambition</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hadrian-esque pubic curls so entrancing—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>His back, loins and shoulders so strong…</i></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-50849513343305742512013-11-08T14:47:00.000-08:002013-11-08T14:47:31.782-08:00Miss Hadrian the Divine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>MISS HADRIAN THE DIVINE</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I was tres tired, simply worn out—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>After years and years of trashy</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hope deferred, loneliness and the</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Awful pain of unrewarded gay toil</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I took everything as nothing more—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Than a personal miserable affront</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I was no stranger to mental fatigue—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But corporeal anguish was simply</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Much too much for my delicate ego—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The horror of all the world’s creepazoids</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I tried to write but dazed by a tacky—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Torrent of ideas I’d find myself dizzy</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Meandering in a maze of words to—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The point of sheer utter exhaustion</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’d lose the thread of an argument—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My pen remaining immobile for hours</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sitting here in my low armchair with—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Its shabby brocade, dull-mauve & green</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My capacity for writing lovely poetry—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Is being constricted by the times</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Old legitimate monarchies are rather—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Everywhere declining & so am I, my dear</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-75149550087804057632013-11-08T08:15:00.000-08:002013-11-08T08:15:28.529-08:00Kiss the Ring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>KISS THE RING</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“His sense of beauty</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>was a great deal</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>more than acute”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Frederick Rolfe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>HADRIAN THE SEVENTH</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>As dainty a sight as I ever did see—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>In a drifting boat my young gondolier</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>On the fetid waters of ancient Venice—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So slender, debonair, not shy at all</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>He knows me already much too well—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’m just another Aschenbach to him</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Deep green water as green can be—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>His green eyes, his white ivory teeth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>His thin waist bare and tanned—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I have to get him while I can</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A string of runny ruthless pearls—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I marvel at his wondrous skin</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Lithe rugged legs & lagoons—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Shuddering blushing boss cupid</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A setting sun & golden glare—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dare I do him again one more time?</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-66094490078509710942013-11-07T18:47:00.000-08:002013-11-07T18:47:50.600-08:00A Prick for the Knowing Ones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>A PRICK FOR THE KNOWING ONES—</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">—“Lord” Timothy Dexter</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To queens at Large the time is—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Com at Last the grat day of Regoising</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is that whye I will tell you—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">thous three kings is Rased my dears</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rased you meane shoued—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the worid olmost—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thay are good mark to be scene—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so the womans Lik to see the frount</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And all peopel Loves to see them—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as the quakers will Com and peape slyly</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And say houe the doue frind—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the prssent king at the Left hand</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the other hats of the middel king</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With his sword king Addoms—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with his Cane in a grand poster</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the first king as if thay was on</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sum politicks king our present king—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">he is stands hearng being yonger and</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very deafe in short being one—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And North & south deafe & very deafe—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the god of Nater has dun very much</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For our present king and all our—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">former ones thay are all good</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I want them to Live for Ever—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and I beleave thay will</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is hard work to be A king—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I say it is harder than tilling the ground</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know it is for I find it is hard work—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to be A Lord I dont desier the sound</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But to pleas the peopel at Large—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">let it gou to brak the way it dus for</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">cour the sick spleney goutey dull frames</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lik my selfe with the goute and so on—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">make merry a Chealy Christon</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No matter what thay worshep—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or miss if onnest Live for Ever—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as I wish I have senc to Leg horn—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Crecham thous 3 kings Are plane</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">white Leead colow at present—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the Royal Arch & figers cost 39 pounds</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">silver the hiest Councaton order—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the world so it is sade by knowing ones</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have only 4 Lions & 1 Lam—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">up the spread Eagel has bin up 3 years</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">upon the Coupalay I have 13 billors front—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Round the hous Nater has formed—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the ground Eaquel to a Solomun</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the onerbel Jonathan Jackson—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">one of the first in this Country</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for tast borne a grat man by Nater—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">then the best of Lurning what sot me</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fored for my plan having so gran spot—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the hool of the word Cant Excead this to</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">thous that dont know would think—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was Like halfe the world a Lier</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have traveled good deale but old—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">steady men sayeth it is the first that it is</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the first best in this Contry—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">& others Contrey I tell you this the trouth</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">None of you all great men needent be</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A frunted at my preseadens</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I spare Now Cost in the work I have—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the tempel of Reason in my garding</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3 years past with a toume—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">see it cost 98 gineys besids the Coffen—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">panted whit in side & out side</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">touched with green Nobel trimmings—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">uncommon Lock so I can tak</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A speaking trumpet and a bibel—</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>RODEO KID</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>He’s like riding a bucking bronco—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There at the Chase County Fair</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Cinching the saddle, getting ready</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Then the gate opens up—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And all hell breaks loose and</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Just hanging on is everything</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>RFD Poetry—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It’s like riding a bunking bronco </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sometimes you just gotta hang on</i></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-29152685162336890722013-11-07T00:23:00.002-08:002013-11-07T00:23:44.457-08:00The Sunken Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Sunken Garden</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“I only give you back</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>what you imagine”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—D. A. Powell</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“The Fluffer Talks of Eternity,”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Useless Landscape</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Just call me poor Alma—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>In Tennessee Williams’ flick</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>SUMMER AND SMOKE evenings—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There in the Sunken Garden</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It was a lot more sunken then—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Back then in the late Fifties</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I sank to my lowly knees—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Worshipping Earl Holliman types</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Lots of bushes and privacy—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>For those of us in the know</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That’s where I got to meet—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Myself in the lovely night</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I got to meet myself—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Alma Winemiller in the dark</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-31525965763248197402013-11-06T23:49:00.000-08:002013-11-06T23:49:40.106-08:00Summer and Smoke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>SUMMER AND SMOKE (1961)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhFA82xvB4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhFA82xvB4</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Is there any way to describe it—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Alma there in SUMMER AND SMOKE</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dealing with her pent-up love-life?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Geraldine Page as Alma Winemiller—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A straitlaced Kansas minister’s daughter</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Una Merkel not helping out very much</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The same with hussy Rita Moreno—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Putting the make on Laurence Harvey</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So tres typical of closeted Kansas yuk</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Like with other Hollywood films—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sitting there in the Granada Theater</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The classic old film palace knew all</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Tennessee Williams knew even more—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Reading my beads as if he were there</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I became Alma & Alma became me…</i></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-13343051581983866152013-11-05T18:28:00.002-08:002013-11-05T18:28:40.721-08:00My Last Wilde Boy Salon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>My Last Wilde Boy Salon</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Brad would</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>rather be dead”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Richard Howard</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“My Last Hustler”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>trappings </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>_________________</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There they all are—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>lounging and lying naked</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>or rather lying in wait for</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>whatever I’m going to read</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>them, some on coke or pills, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>others with eyes without flashes </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>of lust or blushing, shameless desire,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>only a boredom, a tender tribute</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>to neither Wilde nor eroticism</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>These are serious customers—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I say to myself perusing the mob,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>suspicion creasing their faces,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>obviously once all those Botux lips</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>were naturally puffy with boyfriend</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>wonder and compliant fleshy joys,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>but now far beyond blowjobs,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>these young Wildean poets already</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>have the look of Sebastian Melmoth </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I’d blow them sympathetic kisses—</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>but what does a old queen like me</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>have to offer these young boyish </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>poets that already seem more jaded</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>than me, their modern day bateau ivre</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>journeys much more arduous than mine,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>this salon reception room standing room</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>only crowd I’m reading to & discussing</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dorian Gray if only she were here</i></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-76347945646367475872013-11-05T17:56:00.001-08:002013-11-05T17:58:17.752-08:00Interviewing the Wilde Boys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Interviewing the Wilde Boys</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“You’re a cute one.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Christopher Hennessy</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“The Interview as Cruising Ground”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>QLBTQ Point of View November 1, 2013</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.glbtq.com/sfeatures/hennessypov.html">http://www.glbtq.com/sfeatures/hennessypov.html</a> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“I invited the cute gay poets right away,” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Mr. Dimitrov said. “I sort of had a list of </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>gays that I wanted to come, and some </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>of them that I wanted to sleep with.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>—Alex Dimitrov “The Wilde Boys Salon</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>for Poetry or Maybe a Hot Date” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>New York Times Fashion & Style </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>November 2, 2011</i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-68232969390934270832013-11-05T13:34:00.001-08:002013-11-05T13:34:47.425-08:00Interview with James Whale 2<br />
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<em style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Edward D. Wood Jr.—James Whale</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">788 South Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades</span></em></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Whale: Bela needs a thousand dollars?<br /><br />Wood: I’ve got some footage from 1955.<br /><br />Whale: Got a name for it yet?<br /><br />Wood: Yeah, but Bela doesn’t like it.<br /><br />Whale: Bela’s at the age where beggars can’t be choosey.<br /><br />Wood: I know. Grave Robbers from Outer Space. That’s the name of it. I’ve got the script ready.<br /><br />Whale: Jaysus christ, Eddie. No wonder he doesn’t like it.<br /><br />Wood: Yeah, but it’s a good script.<br /><br />Whale: Hmmm, yes very imaginative, my dear.<br /><br />[Whale and Wood are sitting around the pool after lunch. Chatting and camping it up. Wood looks up to Whale—the master horror director. As usual Wood is broke; Whale is wealthy after investing wisely.]<br /><br />Whale: Ernest Thesiger called the other day. He and Una are in Rome.<br /><br />Wood: Una Conner? Una and Ernst? Talk about odd couple.<br /><br />Whale: Ah yes, after Bride of Frankenstein they fell in love with each other. They do Rome—hustle the boys. Una gets Thesiger that rarest tidbit of Italian jailbait. You know—in the Vatican.<br /><br />Wood: Thesiger has no shame. It’s a wonder you didn’t cast her as the Bride of Frankenstein.<br /><br />[Whale smiles. It seems so long ago. Back when campy Ernst played mad Dr. Praetorius. Whimpering, pleading with Karloff: “Not that!!! Please not that!!! Not the Lever!!!” Exploding the whole rotten Castle of Frankenstein. Ending Miss Thesiger and her sordid monstrous dream of world dominion.]<br /><br />Whale: The scene with cigars and wine down in the cemetery crypt—toasting to a future world of monsters. That was Ernst’s idea.<br /><br />Wood: And that stunning entrance—Elsa as the Bride of Frankenstein! Those flourishing trumpets! With her lovely silk lace wedding dress! And her exquisite sweeping art deco wig!<br /><br />Whale: Ah yes—the coiffure with lightening bolts. One of my better accomplishments.<br /><br />Wood: I bet all the studio big wigs were dying with jealousy.<br /><br />Whale: Of course, my dear. I didn’t want to do Bride anyway. I knew it would typecast me—the Frankenstein Curse. And it did too, didn’t it?<br /><br />[Wood nods knowingly—knowing only too well that Whale’s career from then on was limited to the horror genre. The Thirties, the Forties—all the way up to its denouement with Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein in the early Fifties. It was a fatal love—the Bride and all her filmic reincarnations up there on the Bijou screen. Whale resented it…using his ironic sense of humor to get even.]<br /><br />Wood: Something that happened to Bela Lugosi too. From Dracula on—he’d always be The Prince of Darkness. Queen of Transylvania. Evil Balkan Bad Boy…<br /><br />Whale: Oh, stop, Eddie. You get so maudlin sometimes. The next thing you’ll be saying you’ve been typecast too.<br /><br />Wood: Well, isn’t it true?<br /><br />Whale: I suppose so, my dear. But then after all—Glen or Glenda did rather get you started on the way to camp, kitsch and fortune.<br /><br />Wood: Fortune? I’m always broke. I write the scripts. I do the directing. I do the filming. I do the special effects. I do the marketing. And yet I get paid peanuts—and when will Hollywood recognize my talent? When will I get my fame and fortune? Like you, Jimmy?<br /><br />Whale: Never. It doesn’t exist. It’s all a grand illusion—I learned that during the war. When I got into acting—for the rest of us. Captured, bored, behind German lines. Drama saved me—it was drag and burlesque that got us through those captive days and nights of hidden secret desires. Camping it up—making light of our uncourageous imprisonment.<br /><br />Wood: I bet you played a simply divine Juliet, my dear.<br /><br />Whale: Yes, I wasn’t bashful either. I loved to show a little leg—during louche lewd scenes. “Oh wherefore art thou, my big bad Romeo bruiser? Why do you keep me waiting—here at this lonely parapet? This sad secluded balcony—beneath the lubricous lascivious moon and leering stars? Wherefore art thou—my cute Latin hunk who needs it worse than me?”<br /><br />Wood: My dear, you haven’t lost the touch.<br /><br />[The bunch of boy-toys lollygagging by the pool—all of them entranced in youthful wonder. Amazed whenever James Whale turned his cinematic charm on—pressing the SOS button that made the Pacific Palisades pause and hesitate. As if Norma Desmond had stepped out on the front porch of her Sunset Boulevard mansion—showing a little leg. Motioning the cute new paperboy to come into her parlor to be paid—for the excruciating monthly subscription to the LA Times. Norma and James liked chicken—the cuter the better. Both James and Norma were known to stoop to conquer—especially when it came to young athletes and ambitious aspiring actors from Hollywood High or the nearby beaches. Or UCLA or hoity-toity Stanford.]<br /><br />Whale: You’re so smooth, Eddie. You know how to get what you want. A thousand for Bela. Oh Jimmy—get my checkbook will you please?<br /><br />[The Pacific Palisades is beautiful—almost as beautiful as James’ pen briefly zipping across the check—making possible the presence of Bela Lugosi once again in a Edward Wood Jr. loser. Who cared though—Eddie put the make on everybody. How else could anything be done—like Jailbait money talked and baloney walked. The same with Bride of the Monster—the meatpacker’s son got the lead not because he was a good actor but because Big Daddy paid for the production. Basically because he wanted his son to be a Hollywood star—and you had to start somewhere… Even an Ed Wood movie was a movie—well, kinda. Hollywood scoffed at Ed Wood—but later generations of American moviegoers would get down on their knees and… well, praise the kitschy Queen of Camp. The one and only Diva of Hollywood Boulevard—the kinky cross-dressing Mandingo Madame of Mulholland Drive!!!]<br /><br />Whale: Christ, Eddie—you’re so dizzy. You’re more dizzy than Una O’Conner. You’re always on the edge of the precipice. On the brink of fame and fortune. All that inventive snark and satire. Even if you don’t know it.<br /><br />[A nude boy nods—saunters off into the beach house. He doesn’t have a name—but he makes good cocktails and hors-d-oeuvres. He makes a nice kept boy—adds some grace and charm to Amalfi Drive. David Lewis has left in a huff; Pierre Foegel the 25 year old bartender James met in a Paris dive has moved in—after Lewis moves out. Whale has fallen in love with him—even getting him a Shell station for doing what he likes to do most. Play with cars—get his greasy hands on expensive Jaguars, Cadillacs and sportcars. Kept men and boys can be expensive—but they do liven up the retirement of aging divas and directors.]<br /><br />Wood: Oh thank you, Jimmy. I feel giddy. Let’s have another mint julep. To celebrate Bela’s good fortune!! I can’t wait—to being shooting!!!<br /><br />Whale: Ah yes, the joys of directing. You remember that scene in Bride of Frankenstein. When Una is standing there after the Castle of Frankenstein had been blown up? Her husband has fallen through the ruins down into the subterranean crypt. Where the Frankenstein Creature still survives? Una is standing there on the precipice—the dark moody clouds are scudding by overhead. Her hair is flowing unkempt in the wind—after the terrible events of the night. She always has that slightly coo-coo look on her face—she’s that way in real life too.<br /><br />Wood: Oh that scene where…<br /><br />Whale: Yes, Una is standing there by this cliff—and who reaches up from the dark depths? The Creature!!! He grabs her scrawny arm. She looks down and screams. Then he grabs her scrawny neck—and with guttural growl of anger and disgust throws poor Una down into the hellish pit. One can hear her scream all the way down, bumping along the way, until her frail broken body splashes into the putrid water far down below.<br /><br />[Wood nods enthusiastically—already his kitschy campy crazy mind is going to town. Thinking of how to squeeze some more Lugosi into the movie. But he had to hurry up—Lugosi was fading fast. It really didn’t make any difference what the script for Bela said—the important thing was getting “Bela Lugosi” up there on the marquee. Into the previews of coming attractions—into the publicity limelight to milk some more bucks out of the local movie houses. Bela may have been a great star back in the Thirties and Forties—but now he was merely a shadowy fading actor from another Era. Like James Whale—forever trapped in the crypt of typecast has-beens and Norma Desmond types. Always looking for the big comeback—the close-up shot at last for Mister Cecile B. DeMille there on the great descending staircase of Hollywood Fame and Fortune. It happens to the best of Hollywood Babylon—the diva die-out rate isn’t pretty.]<br /><br />Whale: And then there’s Una doing her little scream routine—somehow catching a lurid glimpse of Claude Raines as The Invisible Man. As if the Invisible Man’s big you know what weren’t invisible at all—but rather the Hollywood gossip was all true.<br /><br />[Claude Raines is Donkey Dong in Invisible Man—even more so in The Wolf Man. Long Chaney Jr. was always getting drunk and talking dirty about it. Smirking at how Colin Clive lost his cookies during that fatal scene in the Laboratory basement—leaning up against the stainless steel operating table after giving the Creature all that juice and voltage through the tarnished bolts in Karloff’s black and blue neck.]<br /><br />Whale: I’ve been keeping a porno diary. Since I retired and had the pool put in. I can’t swim, of course—I could probably drown in the shallow end. The boys love to have fun—day in and day out.<br /><br />Wood: I can just imagine you in angora—floating face down in your pool. Famous Angora Queen found beneath Swaying Amalfi Palms—Pacific Palisades Sugar Daddy!!! Gone like Murnau—going down on cute Philippino teenage chauffeur. Over the cliff—the Packard convertible. Murnau—not missing a drop!!<br /><br />Whale: Oh stop it, Eddie. Don’t get me laughing. I’ll surely end up with a stroke—in Santa Monica or Pasadena. That’s where they put old directors—old worn-out Frankensteins and dreary queen bee blood-suckers.<br /><br />Wood: Thank you, Jimmy. Let me get back to Bela right away. He wants to call it Plan 9 From Outer Space. I’ve got Vampira and Tor Johnson lined up. I’ll dedicate the film to you, dearest Jimmy.<br /><br />Whale: Oh that’s okay, Eddie. I’d rather you wouldn’t though.<br /></span></em></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276895231770993298.post-72542090706165866282013-11-05T09:25:00.000-08:002013-11-05T09:25:14.783-08:00Interview with Gerald Malanga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><i>“How does poetry </i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Yes, the interview as artform. As with Hennessy</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—</i><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a gay ‘cruising ground’ artform. He’s good at it—plus he’s tres talented at critiquing his own performance at it as well. As with this latest GLBTQ interview with himself—a unique form of book review I must say.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My interviews with gays are much more along the lines of fag fictional characters out of my imagination. For example, here’s a rather popular piece I posted recently: “Interview with James Whale.” </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>My style of interviewing is somewhat less cruisy that Hennessy’s charming interviews. Especially when it comes to various Hollywood horror directors…</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Such as campy Ed Wood Jr. interviewing Miss James Whale in a rather tres gay conversation there beside Miss Whale’s lovely Pacific Palisades pool. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It’s a rather jaundiced interview—somewhat interrupted by Miss Whale’s languishing laments about his Hollywood horror film oeuvre.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Nicely interrupted though, now and then, by cute cavorting nude CA boytoys playing there in the lovely blue pool.</i></span><br />
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