Sunday, November 3, 2013

Children of the Night


CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT


“Listen to them—
Children of the Night”
—Bela Lugosi, DRACULA
_________

● Gay Identity Politics
● Queens of the Id
● Queer Vampirehood
● Fag Filmography
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GAY IDENTITY POLITICS

Nothing has seemed more—
Like a mystery wrapped up
Inside an enigma and

Hidden behind a curtain—
As gay identity politics has
Been for me, my dears

It’s like dreaming—
Each time I wake up
And remember myself

I realize that nothing—
Could be more unique
Gay identity in dreaming

QUEENS OF THE ID

Call it uncanny—
Or lucid dreaming
It’s always different

As different as each—
Dream denouement of
My so-so faggy self

Is there a poetics—
Are there genres of
Gay dream identities?

QUEER VAMPIREHOOD

Queer Theory queens—
Seem to say that there’s 
No such thing as “queer”

Yet what could be more—
Queer than my tres gay
Faggoty unconscious?

The Queens of the Id—
Whoever they are can
Certainly dish it out

Call it drag, cabaret—
Burlesque, vaudeville
It’s all so very queer

FAG FILMOGRAPHY

Miss Murnau with her—
NOSFERATU niggling
Nightmare Vampirehood 

Miss Whale along with—
Miss Ernest Thesiger in
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

DRACULA’S DAUGHTERS—
Fag Hags of the Night
Madame Zaleska 

Gay identity flaunts—
Itself both in dreams
And Midnight Movies



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