DORIAN GRAY 

"If I could get back my youth, 
I'd do anything in the world 
except get up early, take 
exercise or be respectable."
—Lord Henry Wotton,
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
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Here I am my dears—
all these years later and
yet here I am once again

Mildewing and rotting in—
THE YELLOW BOOK, my dears
so nice to be back home again
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Having been finally queered—
into VOGUE Magazine once
again, oh the bourgeois lag!!!

It was simply insufferable—
my dears & yet I seem to be
back once again, my dears
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One need not believe—
in the usual somewhat boring
Norma Desmond Comeback Routine

My tacky Portrait, honey—
up there in my spider-webbed
Attic is doing just fine, my dears…