On Howling My Answers to Allen Ginsberg's Cosmoplitan Greetings

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU!

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because you said "I'm going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly." 

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because teenage longings took me to beat coffee houses late nights at St. Michael's Alley and the Tangent in Palo Alto smoking foreign cigarettes...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when I stood in line for you to sign my copy of Cosmopolitan Greetings I fell in love and I'm caressing my body as I write this and our love is consummated every time I masterbate...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when I was 12 no one showed me how to suck cocks or even told me about it but a craving for it came from deep in my soul...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because teenage longings took me to Kepler's bookstore when it was still pubescent and seminal and horny for rebellion and I admired Ira Sandperl there....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because after I make love to my wife of 36 years I sit naked before the computer and jack off in gay chat rooms....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when I was 16 I begged Tim to let me screw him in the butt....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I'm in love with something and someone much deeper than myself or another human....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because once in Vietnam I was naked with two beautiful whores and one sucked my balls and the other sucked my cock and I admired their naked bodies as I begged them to get me a freshly-pubescent boy...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because i'm in love with my wife and Sarah and Tara and my priest friend and you and...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when I pray naked Jesus kisses me on the lips....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because teenage longings sat Mike and I cross-legged and naked in a tent reading out loud your poems to each other "...we scream in our hearts, cocks spurting alone in our fists!" our semen droplets pearly in the candle light...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I'm in love with my dog and we tongue kiss and she licks my cock...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I'm angry that men and boys aren't free to cruise for sex with one another in public parks and restrooms and rest stops...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when I was in line at the bookstore for you to sign Cosmopolitan Greetings I was with Tom whom I love and I prayed that you would take us to your hotel room and make love to us...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I cum in my hand and lick it off...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I fight to de-criminalize gay sex in porn theaters and tea rooms while still relishing the thrill of risking arrest....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when I watch gay porn and lesbian porn and shemale porn and fetish porn I smile and caress my nipples and languidly lick my precum....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I love reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn knowing that in heaven we'll all be naked boys playing together on that celestial shore...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I'm aroused by my daughter in a bikini....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I don't believe NAMBLA is a dirty word...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because the summer I was fifteen I sailed to the middle of Huntington lake to verify my hypothesis that peeing all over myself is intensely erotic....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when I was a young soldier in Germany I hiked to an alpine meadow in the Bavarian Alps and layed naked in the grass and jacked off as an airplane slowly buzzed overhead then half-dozed as my semen crawled over my tummy...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because thirteen year-old Steven holds my heart in his hands...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because my body tingles when my wife whispers that she wants to pee on me...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because in junior high and high school group showers were the best part of gymn class...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because on a Boy Scout trip across the country to the National Jamboree I couldn't sleep the night Jon was my roommate because my heart raced and my breath came too fast and I longed to feel his naked body against mine....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because when we were 10 years old Robert and I rubbed our naked bodies together and called it fucking...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I don't care that the neighbors gossip about my butt being tanned dark as my shoulders....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I eat Jesus' human flesh and drink His human blood....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because in high school while naked in the woods Mike watched me jack off and asked me to save my sperm in my hand and Tim and I dressed as girls and flirted with each other then undressed each other and I sucked his cock and Miles said I was a queer when I sat naked with a boner in his living room and he jacked me off and smiled as my cum spilled over his hand...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I'm in love with my wife and you and Hart Crane and Walt Whitman...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I sit between two men in the adult theatre watching shemale porn while jacking off the man on my left with my left hand and the man on my right with my right hand while another man kneels between my legs and sucks my cock...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I'm sacrificing my life on the altar of literature....

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I'm at home in gay bathhouses...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because some years ago I fell in love with Naomi when she was 11...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because I check for glory holes and jack off  in front of public urinals...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because had I been a Catholic altar boy seduced by priests I would have begged for more...

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU because you said "I write poetry because it's the best way to say everything in mind within 6 minutes or a lifetime."

I'M A QUEER POET LIKE YOU!