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Author: CAMPO, RAFAEL Matches Found: 205 Campo, Rafael Poet's Biography 205 poems available by this author 10,000TH AIDS DEATH IN SAN FRANCISCO First Line: A woman hurried past me in the street Last Line: A woman hurries past me, frowning, far A POET'S EDUCATION Poem Text First Line: In fact, the classroom overlooked a street Last Line: His dusty classrom beckoned, high aloft Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Medical Students; Poetry & Poets; Education; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ABDOMINAL EXAM First Line: Before the glimmer of his sunken eyes Last Line: The treasures we can't hide, our swallowed gold ADDRESSED TO HER First Line: On seeing you that second time last night Last Line: Stretched taut-forgiving him, forgiving us AGE 5, BORN WITH AIDS Poem Text First Line: In jaime's picture of the world, a heart Last Line: Of art, except the names we give ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AGE 5, BORN WITH AIDS First Line: In jaime's picture of the world, a heart Last Line: Of art, except the names we give ourselves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness AIDA Poem Text First Line: I've never met the guy next door. I know Last Line: Of sharing candlelight – it falls, it falls Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness AIDA First Line: I've never met the guy next door. I know Last Line: Of sharing candlelight -- it falls, it falls Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ALLEGORY First Line: Outside somewhere, beneath an atmosphere Last Line: So sad and happy, all at once, again ANOTHER POEM IN ENGLISH First Line: Another night, gone. More forgetting of %the way nights end Last Line: I'll let you wear me, blood-rubies clasped to your lapel ASYLUM First Line: Demented underneath the moon, I watch Last Line: Was busy, furious, bent to the loom. AUNT TONI'S HEART First Line: A motorcycle roaring in the distance Last Line: D her angel. My own heart felt new BABY PICTURES: 1. IMAGINARY First Line: Now that we are mostly in our early thirties, it seems that so many of Last Line: So unreal, so unimaginable BABY PICTURES: 10. BABY PICTURES First Line: A friend of mine, a poet, is leaving his wife and three-year-old daughter. I Last Line: Before taking out the milk for my cereal, that's what I secretly hoped, in %spite of myself BABY PICTURES: 11. HYSTERECTOMY First Line: When my uterus was removed, no surgery was required. When my child Last Line: There somewhere, looking for me, singing our song at the top of her lungs BABY PICTURES: 12. EPIPHANY First Line: I want to go back to that small pond. I want just to stumble upon it again Last Line: As much as I've wanted to, I never went back to that small pond BABY PICTURES: 2. AIDS MOTHER First Line: When she refused my suggestion that she have an abortion, I was annoyed Last Line: Had never really abandoned BABY PICTURES: 3. ALIENS First Line: In the check-out line at the lil' peach, I saw the headline: woman Last Line: Strangers to one another BABY PICTURES: 4. PROM QUEEN First Line: A few nights ago I had a terrible nightmare. I dreamed I was that prom Last Line: It. I woke up with a start, in a cold sweat BABY PICTURES: 5. BARREN First Line: When I was a young child, I remember my mother explaining to me why Last Line: Promise of my mysterious inheritance BABY PICTURES: 6. DEMETER First Line: The first birth I attended during my medical training occurred at around Last Line: Bring me my beautiful little girl, my perfect demeter' BABY PICTURES: 7. AUGUST First Line: My sister was born when I was almost fourteen years old, and my mother Last Line: Class of 2000, a place so far away I could almost imagine peace BABY PICTURES: 8. FUCKING First Line: I think I know what birth feels like. Not literally, of course. It's the plea- Last Line: Reducible ecstasy, what each one of us felt at the first moment after birth BABY PICTURES: 9. DOCTOR KEVORKIAN First Line: At the hospice, there was a bowl of jelly beans on the coffee table in the Last Line: That in death she would be reborn BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC First Line: Defending you, my country, hurts Last Line: Bring this love song to my mind Subject(s): Homosexuality BEGGING FOR CHANGE IN WINTER First Line: The season always makes me think of peace Last Line: This season always makes me question peace BELONGING First Line: I went to cuba on a raft I made Last Line: That told the history of my lost people CAFE PAMPLONA First Line: I know this really isn't spain. But still Last Line: I'm spanish, since it's clear I can't forget CAMINO REAL First Line: I speak by cutting ruts in air. The dust Last Line: And watch the mission priests tame hawks for pets CARDIAC EXAM First Line: Before the brainless heart gives out Last Line: One world, a promise to be kept CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 1. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY First Line: Aisha got it from her husband dex Last Line: My voice will drown you, like an undertow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 10. REFINISHING THE HARDWOOD FLOORS First Line: The day he came to give his estimate Last Line: I felt so clean I cried, and couldn't stop CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not Last Line: For once, I was what I would always be Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 2. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MARCH 11, 1997 First Line: New aids drug promise cure, new york- 'before Last Line: Of mr. Clinton's stooges could be reached CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 3. MONOGAMY RESPONDS First Line: I've lived with him for thirteen years. I cringe Last Line: I wonder, bracing for the next attack Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 4. THE PUNDITS AND THE EXPERTS SPEAK First Line: If aids remains an epidemic in Last Line: Most people don't believe in miracles CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 5. ELEGY FOR THE AIDS VIRUS First Line: How difficult it is to say goodbye Last Line: Of nothingness, of clarity. We win! CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 6. MONOGAMY GETS MARRIED First Line: We planned the ceremony yesterday Last Line: The sunset's wound-your love is why I'm saved CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 7. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY EXACTS REVENGE First Line: Perhaps it's childish, sending poisoned fruit Last Line: Of pride. The virus makes them mine to kill CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 8. THE NEW YORK TIMES, APRIL 1, 1997 First Line: Hawaii-two physicians wed today %before a gathering of family Last Line: They'd seen her gift: a perfect apple tree CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 9. THE FAILURE OF EMPATHY ON CENTER STREET First Line: On center street, one finds all: the art Last Line: Your heart is human. Never let it close Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Streets CUBAN SKY First Line: Remembering is just another form Last Line: Was, despite my father's love, not possible DARKEST PURPLE First Line: Among the mourners gathered there were three Last Line: And joy, one whose meaning was not to break DEATH PERPLEXING First Line: And when you died, it was perplexing. Songs Last Line: A death perplexing as the life I lead DIALOGUE WITH SUN AND POET First Line: The sun is making arguments again Last Line: Is what you say. Arise. I understand DISTANT MOON First Line: Admitted to the hospital again Last Line: Of concentration. In a mirror shines %the distant moon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness DIVA First Line: Before I knew, I listened to their songs Last Line: I knew a woman's voice was saving me DRAWING BLOOD First Line: Today, I try to concentrate on veins Last Line: To paint the world the color of a scream DREAM OF LOVING CUBA First Line: The island wants me back. It's half-erect Last Line: A truth I tell myself, your grateful liar DYING ART First Line: The physical's your art: I see Last Line: You live -- so write! Until we're cured EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER) Poem Text First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER) First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Poem Text First Line: In mexico, I met myself one day Last Line: In mexico, they sing so beautifully Subject(s): Mexico; Gays & Lesbians; Illness EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS First Line: In mexico, I met myself one day Last Line: In mexico, they sing so exquisitely Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ELEGY FOR THE AIDS VIRUS Poem Text First Line: How difficult it is to say goodbye Subject(s): Aids (disease) END OF SHAME First Line: The faggot entertained %a certain king -- day in Last Line: The faggot slowly learning how FINALLY First Line: Two lovers met. It wasn't lovers' lane Last Line: Two lovers met. The other man was me that night FIVE PATIENTS: 1. MRS. G First Line: The patient is a sixty-odd-year-old Last Line: On haldol, waiting for a bed upstairs FIVE PATIENTS: 2. JAMAL First Line: The patient is a three-year-old black male Last Line: That's her--the one who sings to him all night FIVE PATIENTS: 3. H. K First Line: The patient is a twenty-nine-year-old Last Line: What's scary is he isn't even gay FIVE PATIENTS: 4. KELLY First Line: The patient is a twelve-year-old white female Last Line: Her dad. He's sitting in the waiting room FIVE PATIENTS: 5. JOHN DOE First Line: An elderly white male, unresponsive Last Line: He's lucky, by tomorrow he'll be dead FOR J. W. First Line: I know exactly what I want to say Last Line: Except my poetry is imprecise GIFT OF AIDS First Line: I saw you coming toward me with a gift Last Line: Your beating heart, your beating, beating heart HEALTH Poem Text First Line: While jogging on the treadmill at the gym HER FINAL SHOW Poem Text First Line: She said it was a better way to die Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Gays & Lesbians; Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors HER FINAL SHOW First Line: She said it was a better way to die Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians I DON'T WANT WHAT I CAN'T SAY, OR, GENET ON KEATS First Line: There are two sides to life. The side where life Last Line: How in our language there are hidden laws ILLNESS First Line: Imagine that the bed is not a bed Last Line: Has come, and she remembers everything IN ENGLISH THAT IS SPANISH First Line: You'd never understand why I'm confused Last Line: With no one ready to misunderstand IN THE FORM First Line: A sonnet? Tension. Words withheld. A rhyme Last Line: I can't -- I'm running out of time! Too late LAST RITES First Line: Exhaustion enters me, as winter does Last Line: But night had rendered it invisible LOST IN THE HOSPITAL Poem Text Subject(s): Hospitals LOST PLAZA IS EVERYWHERE First Line: The protected venezuela, the rare Last Line: Touching for a moment, the cafe LOVE OF SOMEONE First Line: Behind him, saffron hills so passionate Last Line: To my face, and imagine that it's always him LUXURY OF REGRETS First Line: To everyone who died while I was free Last Line: Please, read -- pretend with me that we are healed MADONNA AND CHILD Poem Text Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Old Age MADONNA AND CHILD First Line: By menopause, it's not just estrogen Last Line: My mother's love. I wonder where it went MADRID First Line: A glimpse of her. Dark sunglasses, her mouth Last Line: The sun. I think her hair is beautiful MARRY ME First Line: Imagine it's hawaii many years Last Line: Like a white wedding dress, before we kiss again MENTAL STATUS EXAM First Line: What is the color of the mind? Beneath Last Line: For us? Do you remember those three things? MY CHILDHOOD IN ANOTHER PART OF THE WORLD First Line: The world was quite then. Last Line: Too young to be so unafraid. MY REASONING First Line: Illogical, yet not illogical Last Line: You dart away. The world moves, quietly MY VOICE Poem Text First Line: To cure myself of wanting cuban song Subject(s): Singing & Singersand Singers; Cuba NEW WORLD'S HISTORY IN THREE VOICES First Line: Confusing cuba with a wealthy land Last Line: But sing for this island, this miracle NIGHT INEXPRESSIBLE First Line: Before it was malignancy, before Last Line: In a gust, a vast, black woman embraces me NIGHTFALL IN ASTURIAS First Line: Like eyebrows raised with weary resignation Last Line: I grasp it when the gypsies start to sing %of night as sanctuary, love as hope NOBODY KNOWS I'M QUEER First Line: Once I read poems by sappho so discreetly Last Line: Honesty, same as your kiss, so it haunts OBSESSIN WITH CURLERS First Line: My mother's looked like an ingenious Last Line: (and that was how she knew) before she went ON CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: One year you gave me lavish jewelry Last Line: You knew I loved you. Night falls OPPOSITES ATTRACT First Line: Imagine that you're home alone. You're bored Last Line: You never will, you'll never get back home OUTSIDE FAYETTEVILLE First Line: Come north to harvest strawberries and corn Last Line: The black man, slowly moving onward, gleams PANTOUM FOR OUR IMAGINED BREAKUP First Line: I can't imagine breaking up with you Last Line: I can't imagine breaking up with you PELVIC EXAM First Line: The speculum is silvery and cold Last Line: The speculum is silvery and cold PHONE MESSAGES ON CALL: 1. PLEASE CALL SOON. DIARRHEA X 2D. PS I... First Line: I let the phone ring thirteen times before Last Line: And then proceed to offer my advice PHONE MESSAGES ON CALL: 2. SHE JUST SAYS SHE IS AFRAID...... First Line: Hello?' the desperation in her voice Last Line: Of floorboards while her terrified heart breaks PHONE MESSAGES ON CALL: 3. LOST HIS RX FOR PAIN PILLS..... First Line: It's fifteen minutes of his history Last Line: That innocence is irreplaceable PHONE MESSAGES ON CALL: 4. PLS CALL BACK. NO FURTHER INFO GIVEN. First Line: The first time that I called a girl picked up Last Line: She didn't answer, though it rang and rang PHONE MESSAGES ON CALL: 5. ER CALLING FOR APPROVAL OF HEAD TRAUMA First Line: An infinite variety of harm: the shovel to the head, knife gash to arm Last Line: The heart I open, mortal wound of care POEM FOR MY FAMILIAR First Line: She's sniffing out the garden's rancid truths Last Line: My mute mistakes, my urgent need for more POET'S EDUCATION First Line: In fact, the classroom overlooked a street Last Line: His dusty classroom beckoned, high aloft Subject(s): Homosexuality PRESCRIPTION First Line: We need more drugs. For cancer, with its claws Last Line: Where victims, all of us, are innocent QUATRAINS FOR A SHRINKING WORLD,SELS: EL ORIENTAL DE CUBA First Line: Victorians surrounding it, the place Last Line: If only they could get there, finally RECOGNITION First Line: That night, while he was beaten, I was stretched Last Line: What he found was anything like grace REPEATING ISLAND First Line: In cuba, 1949, a boy %who almost was a man, who lived beneath Last Line: A new divided nation would be born RETURN First Line: He doesn't know it yet, but when my father Last Line: I give him cuba, he will love me then S.W. Poem Text First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors S.W. First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SAN FERNANDO First Line: I write to you in english, father Last Line: I'll keep this with the things I save, for you SMALL COMFORT First Line: What else is there to say, when what I see Last Line: As both of us are given to the grand SONG FOR MY FATHER: 1. MY FATHER'S CHILDHOOD First Line: A beach. A cliff like walls, unscalable Last Line: The wind for me, his son, to touch his son SONG FOR MY FATHER: 10. ON VACATION FROM MEDICAL SCHOOL First Line: His ekg is unfamiliar ground Last Line: His ekg. My love seizes me in bursts SONG FOR MY FATHER: 11. WHAT MY MOTHER SAYS First Line: She gazes at him, pure, an urgent light Last Line: I think of how she loves him, but I can't SONG FOR MY FATHER: 12. LOVE POEM First Line: My father is another man I love Last Line: I love my father. I am not alone SONG FOR MY FATHER: 13. I DREAM I'M HIM First Line: It starts like this: my superstitious aunt Last Line: Beneath my feet that vomits lambs in herds SONG FOR MY FATHER: 14. I IMAGINE HE IS ILL First Line: My father worried over colleges Last Line: Reminds me we're his heart, and what it means to break SONG FOR MY FATHER: 15. UNTITLED First Line: They named me after him, and then he changed Last Line: And sterilized it. I hardly bled or made a sound SONG FOR MY FATHER: 16. SONNET FOR MY FATHER First Line: The secret man. He stands, an obelisk Last Line: To give me continents of love -- is clear SONG FOR MY FATHER: 2. KEATS AND SHAKESPEARE First Line: They met, their college english class like light Last Line: Was what he'd dream he might have never found SONG FOR MY FATHER: 3. PLANNING A FAMILY First Line: I wished to make a boy from her, a son Last Line: To teach me my own life, to share my grief SONG FOR MY FATHER: 4. FAMILY DINNER First Line: With dinner, questions came; geography Last Line: Were mending bones; what meats were which animals SONG FOR MY FATHER: 5. THEIR LONG VACATIONS IN HAWAII First Line: The slide projector always seemed a trap Last Line: Slides, chipped from time's vast glacier gliding past SONG FOR MY FATHER: 6. ADVICE FOR THE NEW WORLD First Line: I populate with you, my son, this place Last Line: You must transport; make kneel the precipice SONG FOR MY FATHER: 7. HONEST First Line: All honesty is made from fear of shame Last Line: I offer him, as though it were a gift SONG FOR MY FATHER: 8. MY FATHER'S VIEW OF POETRY First Line: You can't make much to live on doing it Last Line: The murderers will drain your throat of sighs SONG FOR MY FATHER: 9. MY PATIENT'S HEART ATTACK First Line: His room is just like mrs. Hanson's room Last Line: Containing dying life, it seems to grow SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 1. GUANTANAMO First Line: My oldest country lies before me now Last Line: His rosary rests in a silver tray SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 10. 10509 SW TERRACE First Line: Yellow stucco, swirling hot -- it burns to lean upon Last Line: For lunch, grandpa mashes boiled yuca SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 11. ANATOMY LESSON First Line: Examine him,' my father said. 'that alone Last Line: And soft as egret's wings, my hands flew off SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 12. CUBAN POETRY First Line: My grandfather loved my grandmother Last Line: Who can't save anyone. Grandpa died last night SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 13. THE FUNERAL First Line: His corpse the blood and bitterness have left Last Line: The constant turning from him as he fell SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 14. THE THINGS I DON'T REMEMBER First Line: His cufflinks. (he wore cufflinks made from shells.) Last Line: Of goats I dreamt he raised. The rubber thing. Spain SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 15. THE DECLINE OF THE SPANISH EMPI First Line: The willows in the park across the way Last Line: He begins again, 'not to see what they'd conquered.' SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 16. SONNET FOR MY GRANDFATHER First Line: My oldest country lies before me now Last Line: He's already written it on my plantation SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 2. THE MEDICINE CABINET First Line: When I was weed-tall, I wondered whether Last Line: Why I should live while he was dying crazy SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 3. THE CURE FOR CANCER First Line: The pool is clear, like the aqua lozenge Last Line: Inside my heart that gives no shade to him SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 4. GRANDFATHER'S WILL First Line: On the subject of your inheritance Last Line: In your coffee. It grows on your plantation SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 5. THE COCKROACH GAME First Line: He's dead now: there, I saw the shadow move Last Line: His bed. And a cockroach on the laundry SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 6. ROSES IN LITTLE HAVANA First Line: Because the roses were deforming sunlight Last Line: You must stay, to watch me die in peace' SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 7. HIS FACE First Line: In the distance, it looks like just another fist Last Line: To hold her under lemon trees and cry SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 8. HIS HOUSE IN SPAIN First Line: He asked me, stooping over whatever Last Line: Than my bone, it left this mark: 'in here,' he said SONG FOR MY GRANDFATHER: 9. MIAMI SE HABLA ESPANOL First Line: When I'd see this sign in big store windows Last Line: Near death. Our language was our secret code SONG FOR MY LOVER: 1. THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE First Line: The narcissism universally Last Line: Our love to a height where no descent begins SONG FOR MY LOVER: 10. WE WEAR EACH OTHER'S LEVI'S First Line: The cardigans you wear I wear as well Last Line: I find beneath my clothes myself, your sighs SONG FOR MY LOVER: 11. A MEDICAL STUDENT LEARNS LOVE AND DEA Poem Text First Line: The scalpel finds the heart. The heart is still Last Line: I cut, and make from him the grave I rob Subject(s): Surgery; Medical Students SONG FOR MY LOVER: 11. A MEDICAL STUDENT LEARNS LOVE AND DEA First Line: The scalpel finds the heart. The heart is still Last Line: I cut, and make from him the grave I rob Subject(s): Medical Students SONG FOR MY LOVER: 12. DENIAL First Line: I want to grow you an eternal tree Last Line: And growing you a tree, a branch to hold SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS Poem Text First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put Last Line: I leave him pleadinmg. Too much to do Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aids Subject(s): Surgery; Aids (disease); Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put Last Line: I leave him pleading. There's too much to do Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aid Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SONG FOR MY LOVER: 14. POEM IN JORGE'S VOICE First Line: We've always known together was the place Last Line: Of love has led them. He can keep his home SONG FOR MY LOVER: 15. POLITICAL POEM First Line: To write political poems, you need events Last Line: Both unattainable and not unjust SONG FOR MY LOVER: 16. SONNET FOR OUR SON First Line: Pretending fatherhood was simply sperm Last Line: Forgive us, but we love you very much SONG FOR MY LOVER: 2. WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY PARENTS First Line: Besides that anger in the kitchen drawers Last Line: The chambered imprint of his heart's assent SONG FOR MY LOVER: 3. OXFORD First Line: I read: the sunday morning bells bemoan Last Line: Behind these unfamiliar doors aren't yours SONG FOR MY LOVER: 4. WHEN RAFAEL MET JORGE First Line: The conversation floundered for awhile Last Line: The open campus, our eyes everywhere SONG FOR MY LOVER: 5. THE WEDDING GIFTS First Line: We didn't want a pressure cooker. Bowls Last Line: The ocean, making satin from our tracks SONG FOR MY LOVER: 6. OUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN First Line: I'm dreaming geographically these days Last Line: To reach between your thighs was not a sin SONG FOR MY LOVER: 7. HE INTERPRETS THE DREAM First Line: The globe that you're exploring represents Last Line: A compass in my voice, the voice you seek SONG FOR MY LOVER: 8. WE'RE MOVING TO SAN FRANCISCO First Line: It isn't anything that anyone Last Line: I touched your glass, and found it jewelled with dew SONG FOR MY LOVER: 9. TRANSLATION First Line: The words are these queer, homo, maricon Last Line: The water is our lives. It overflows SONG FOR OUR SON Poem Text First Line: Pretending fatherhood was simply sperm Last Line: Forgive us, but we love you very much Subject(s): Fathers; Gays & Lesbians SONG FOR OUR SON: 1. THE CYCLE BEGINS ANEW First Line: To reproduce the pattern is a noose Last Line: Near death. I have the vision of our son SONG FOR OUR SON: 10. GAY PARENTS ARE NEITHER First Line: An unexpected sacrifice is friends Last Line: We talk it out. Our son is all we know SONG FOR OUR SON: 11. I TAKE OUR SON TO CUBA First Line: Until I take our son to cubs, glass Last Line: Discover who their fathers are, and speak SONG FOR OUR SON: 12. GAY FREEDOM PARK First Line: The activists all bring along their kids Last Line: Belongs to every people. Even us SONG FOR OUR SON: 13. THE PEDIATRICIAN WHO CURED HIMSELF First Line: The spanish-speaking kids he dreamed he'd cure Last Line: Has grown. My son, it says you are my fate SONG FOR OUR SON: 14. THE SONNET AFTER THIS MUST WAIT First Line: This fantasy is ending here: a ledge Last Line: The future hurts -- another promise comes SONG FOR OUR SON: 14. WHAT LOVING PARENTS ARE First Line: Our son will know what loving parents are Last Line: The joy to be his loving parents is SONG FOR OUR SON: 15. AFTERTHOUGHT First Line: Not now, elise. I'm busy writing verse Last Line: Upon my face. Now go. I'm writing verse SONG FOR OUR SON: 15. THE DAUGHTER OF MY IMAGINATION First Line: My country, if I were a potentate Last Line: Is vanishing where seas and mountains meet SONG FOR OUR SON: 2. ADOPTION First Line: It means, especially for us, the state Last Line: Who'd been abandoned to, through us, such hate SONG FOR OUR SON: 3. HE BECOMES A WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTIST First Line: He's married to the woman of his dreams Last Line: The man I was, so hungry is this pride SONG FOR OUR SON: 5. KINDERGARTEN First Line: They stare, but we expected stares. The shock Last Line: Our son is filthy. Hissing in the leaves Subject(s): Kindergarten SONG FOR OUR SON: 6. MY BROTHER'S OPINION First Line: It's not that homosexuality Last Line: I love you guys. I'd hate to see you hurt SONG FOR OUR SON: 7. I EXPLAIN AGAIN First Line: The orphanage imagines that a world Last Line: They'll know the truth: no love's the only sin SONG FOR OUR SON: 8. HIS COLLEGE EDUCATION First Line: One day, I started saving money. Ten Last Line: To give my son one seed to cultivate SONG FOR OUR SON: 9. BIRTHDAY PARTY First Line: My brother smokes a joint inside. My son Last Line: My son looks down -- then opens in a grin SONNET IN THE CUBAN WAY First Line: To make you fall in love with me, I'd curse Last Line: In love at last, so naked you'd seem free SONNET NO. 904 First Line: This is too easy, all this afternoon Last Line: We grope -- that card was directions! Those rhymes were our past STILL MONOGAMOUS AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS First Line: Tonight I fell in love with not. I was Last Line: Not kind. I'll never, ever be the same SUICIDAL IDEATION First Line: Miami, near a hundred-eight degrees Last Line: Of shame, I razed the island that he was SUPERMAN IS DEAD Poem Text First Line: I used to think that immortality Last Line: Back into bed, your body hard and warm Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SUPERMAN IS DEAD First Line: I used to think that immortality Last Line: Back into bed, your body hard and warm Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE First Line: The transformation is complete. My eyes Last Line: You're drying just like me; you are alive.' TEST First Line: Singing to himself, waiting for the voice Last Line: The virus, deadly, in the tears. Where else would it be THE ABDOMINAL EXAM Poem Text First Line: Before the glimmer of his sunken eyes, THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Defending you, my country, hurts Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 1. THE GHOST OF EPIDEMIOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Aisha got it from her husband dex Last Line: My voice will drown you in its undertow Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS Poem Text First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT Poem Text First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THE DISTANT MOON Poem Text First Line: Admitted to the hospital again Last Line: The distant moon Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness THE FOUR HUMOURS Poem Text First Line: We wondered if the rumors got to her Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Anger; Melancholy; Cancer (disease); Doctors; Illness; Dejection THE X FILES Poem Text First Line: In search of them - the aliens we don't Last Line: In their precision when they stole my voice Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials THREE RECENT FILMS: 1. PHILADELPHIA First Line: A homophobic lawyer takes his case Last Line: Again, dear brother, what I've always known THREE RECENT FILMS: 2. THE HUNGER First Line: When susan sarandon and catherine deneuve Last Line: This love undying, was happening to me THREE RECENT FILMS: 3. KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN First Line: Imprisoned in a dream I had Last Line: I recognize my face in his UNDETECTABLE First Line: If love is not invisible, then they Last Line: Them both, but it's impossible to see %their love's unmeasurable quantity WHAT THE BODY TOLD Poem Text First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Last Line: It was fabulous, what the body told Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors WHAT THE BODY TOLD Poem Text First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Subject(s): Physicians; Medicine; Physicians; Doctors; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors WHAT THE BODY TOLD First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Last Line: I was fabulous, what the body told Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WHAT WOULD I GIVE Poem Text First Line: What I would like to give them for a change Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors WRITER IN EXILE First Line: I've wished that I were born a soviet Last Line: I'm nothing yet, although tomorrow's near X FILES First Line: In search of them - the aliens we don't Last Line: Were all erased but they were clinical %in their precision when they stole my voice Subject(s): Aliens YOU CAN JUST SEE THE CYNICISM First Line: That everyone in this society just loves Last Line: Seem patient witnesses with longing in their eyes |
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