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A Man Like You
The truth is that I’ve never quite been gay,
more homosexual. The melancholic strain
has always run too deep for me to dance
as if no one’s watching. I need there to be
no one at all before I dance like space
and time conform to my body. The man
I love is melancholic too, with creased
and softly etched features, an old of shape
and quiet man, a man like me, like you.
more homosexual. The melancholic strain
has always run too deep for me to dance
as if no one’s watching. I need there to be
no one at all before I dance like space
and time conform to my body. The man
I love is melancholic too, with creased
and softly etched features, an old of shape
and quiet man, a man like me, like you.
Published 1st Jun 2022
| Edited 2nd Jun 2022
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Anonymous
1st Jun 2022 10:02pm
Hi Runes,how are you?
A gentle,empowering,beautiful piece.
Thank you for sharing.
Take care.
X
A gentle,empowering,beautiful piece.
Thank you for sharing.
Take care.
X
Anonymous
- Edited 1st Jun 2022 11:49pm
1st Jun 2022 11:43pm
Myself, if ima dance, I prefer a dance floor with some 80's Skinny Puppy raging across it (at volume 11), strobe lights set to epileptic fit, dance fogs set to asthmatic attack, crowd seething around the edges, and angry (but entirely conscious) mosh pit cycloning around and around itself at roughly dead center. Oh, and preferably 80's Skinny Puppy (or 80's Butthole Surfers for that matter) is actually on stage, and not just coming over the sound system.
It seems I've always been a bit too far too gone to have ever wanted to dance with anything resembling actual sexuality. Plus, I don't like that kind of attention visually bestowed upon me. Its the old mosh pit adage—Give me elbows and knees (and respect the sisters).
Come to think of it though, Im way too old and filled with decorum and the stature of my place to realistically do anything other than stand around outside that mosh pit (like, within the seething edge) and admire the angry-in-order-to-be-happy, communally sweaty going's on from afar, but still, THAT sounds like nightclub Heaven to me. Angry punk-happy, with a purpose. (Purpose being, to slam🙂. I know. I am so dating myself.)
Probably not your exact purpose with this poem, but thank you for allowing me to take this nostalgic trip through memory's idealized lane here in your comments. 👆🙏👍.
Grace and Peace is the never ending Objective of our entire lives, I think.
Em.
❤️
It seems I've always been a bit too far too gone to have ever wanted to dance with anything resembling actual sexuality. Plus, I don't like that kind of attention visually bestowed upon me. Its the old mosh pit adage—Give me elbows and knees (and respect the sisters).
Come to think of it though, Im way too old and filled with decorum and the stature of my place to realistically do anything other than stand around outside that mosh pit (like, within the seething edge) and admire the angry-in-order-to-be-happy, communally sweaty going's on from afar, but still, THAT sounds like nightclub Heaven to me. Angry punk-happy, with a purpose. (Purpose being, to slam🙂. I know. I am so dating myself.)
Probably not your exact purpose with this poem, but thank you for allowing me to take this nostalgic trip through memory's idealized lane here in your comments. 👆🙏👍.
Grace and Peace is the never ending Objective of our entire lives, I think.
Em.
❤️
2nd Jun 2022 00:12am
Actually that kind of was my exact purpose. To be able to be yourself with no unnecessary judgement, respecting one another. And I loved your trip down memory lane. I wish I had similar memories to share, but mine are mostly dull!
Anonymous
2nd Jun 2022 1:07am
There's no such thing as dull!
2nd Jun 2022 3:00am
Mate, I'd only say, as an observer of your journey for better part of an year or so, it, in some ways reminds me of Rimbaud's ....
2nd Jun 2022 6:17pm
"I dance like space and time..." Reminds me of Bowie. Your short offerings are most impactful. Last line here is exquisite.
