We're All Queer In Our Own Way:

[Erthona]

Ed,

Did you read the original?

Here it is

"Harry drove himself
into the back of a lollipop man
his dad...."

There are two points, why omit car, and why the need to describe that it was into his back, when we usually just say, "he drove his car into the person". BY leaving out "the car" and say he drove himself into the man's back I think it easily sets up the idea of at least symbolic anal sex with his father, a not unknown sentiment expressed my many gay men. It is not much different from a common thought in female psychology of having sex with their father in order to feel love. If a man is gay, he basically takes on the role as daughter in relation to his father. We know the guy is gay because Billy tells us he is. That he is unable to come to terms with this evidently has something to do with him killing his father. If I said "he forcefully drove himself into her" would you not at least suspect sexual overtones? Considering the set up in this poem, I think merely seeing a suspicion of sexual symbolism is the least inference we can draw.

Dale