Bad Boy Bijou



BAD BOY BIJOU

“It’s something that’s 
part of me, that I grew 
up with, especially movies”
—John Ashbery
OUR DEEP GOSSIP: 
CONVERSATIONS WITH 
GAY WRITERS ON POETRY
AND DESIRE
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Funny isn’t it—
How dreams are like
MAGIC THEATER

This morning I had—
A Gay Whooperdoozie
A Bad Boy Bijou flick
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Mostly movie dreams—
For me are usually dreams
Inside other dreams

I’ll wake up from some—
Riveting Melodrama and
Be inside a Dream Theater
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Then the dream continues—
But with a dream audience
All of us onerically enthralled

Then I'd wake up and—
Realize I'd been dreaming
Just a dream-inside-a-dream
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Has that ever happened—
To you maybe, like when you
Wake up in bed for real?

My dream this morning—
I woke up under the Marquee
Outside the Bad Boy Bijou
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The funny thing is—
Throngs of cute chicken
Couples were coming

Coming and going—
Out of the Bijou Theater
Pairs of Justin Bieber lovers



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