Carson McCullers
CARSON McCULLERS
THE BITCH GODDESS
It takes one—
To know one, honey
Being a Bitch Goddess, that is—
Just ask Plath or Bette Davis
“What a dump!” Bette sneers—
“Fasten your seatbelts, dears”
But McCullers does it better—
With that Southern Gothic twist
"Reflections in a Golden Eye"—
Truly a Southern Gothic Horror
THE GOLDEN EYE
Carson McCullers—
Would go back to Georgia
To refresh herself—
With Southern Gothic Horror
Reflections in a Golden Eye—
Naked boy riding a horse
The young soldier voyeur—
Ogling Brando’s slutty wife
Brando ogling the Stud—
Liz sleeping there in bed
Ending up dead because—
Brando wanted him instead
The Filipino fag—
Painting the Golden Eye
IN COLD BLOOD
Speaking of Bitch Goddesses—
I simply can’t understand
Why in the world didn't—
Miss Capote choose Carson?
Carson McCullers to go—
With him back to Kansas?
To write In Cold Blood—
In that dumpy Gothic hole?
A fag hag, my dears—
To keep him company
Most probably though—
Because Carson McCullers
Such a cynical Southern—
Gothic Bitch Queen like him
Helping to grease the path—
For his bitchy Nonfiction Novel
ANACLETO
Zorro David the sensitive—
Filipino fag Anacleto
Perhaps the real Caliban—
Or was she Ariel, my dears?
A fag in the flick—
Only made Things worse
Besides adultery, bestiality—
Now a nelly queen gone amok
The Catholic Legion of Decency—
Gets their Special Premier
They simply aren’t ready—
It’s worse than “Baby Doll”!!!
JOHN HUSTON
John Huston later wrote—
He liked McCullers’ novel
The way she wrote—
Such calm cool detachment
Her Understanding of the—
Various Novella’s characters
Recording them with dignity—
Rather than just Str8t Reportage
No moral indignation—
No bourgeois condensation
Perhaps McCullers invented—
Truman Capote’s style first?
The Nonfiction Novel—
Actually Gay Reportage, my dears!
THE FEY ARIEL
The Fag in the movie—
Actually he’s Ariel
Through his Eyes—
Nature becomes Voyeurisme
The gay Filipino paints—
He has the Golden Eye
He’s the fey Ariel—
Ahead of his time
Robert Forster as Caliban—
Riding the horse nude
Equus can be so very exciting—
Don’t you think my dears?
QUEER CINEMA
Later the New Yorker—
Praised Huston’s techniques
Precursor to Queer Cinema—
His “radically unrealistic” style
Outrageous scenes piled—
One on top of the other
Laughing at the antics—
Of McCullers’ hoary characters
Liz Taylor the Slut—
Pretentious junior harridan
Compared with Miss Brando—
The gay murderous mad Majorette
NOUVEAU SOUTHERN GOTHIC
Miss Shakespeare, my dear—
Updating antebellum Southern Goth?
Miss Huston as Prospero—
In a modern day Tempest flick?
Disaffected Magician Diva—
Carson McCullers as fey Ariel
Marlon Brando as moody Caliban—
Jilted as well as cuckolded
Taylor as pampered Miranda—
No wonder the Critics were shocked!
Huston making fun of their—
Repressed, quaint, naïve Sexuality
THE TEMPEST
Such a cinematic Tempest—
Seemingly So stupid now, my dears
Bare-backed and bare-assed—
How the Public Eye ogled so
Huston using his Golden Eye—
Making all the critics hostage Voyeurs
Both Huston and McCullers—
Their Sardonic ghastly humor
Here Cease more questions—
Thou art inclined to Sleep
Give up the old Way—
See now through the Bolder Eye
We’re ready now, my dears—
Approach, my Ariel, come…
—the Tempest, Act I, II
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