11-21-2012, 06:25 PM
"Fine, but too many gays," said dad one evening
when I asked how a date with my stepmother went
(he'd taken her to a dinner 'n' dancing joint).
His hate was fairly inoffensive;
the kind a lot of men share
as fear and ignorance combine.
Mine, however, was unforgiving.
In dreams I'd beat and humiliate him,
like a Jacobean climax
where everyone dies horribly.
when I asked how a date with my stepmother went
(he'd taken her to a dinner 'n' dancing joint).
His hate was fairly inoffensive;
the kind a lot of men share
as fear and ignorance combine.
Mine, however, was unforgiving.
In dreams I'd beat and humiliate him,
like a Jacobean climax
where everyone dies horribly.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe