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Author: KOESTENBAUM, WAYNE Matches Found: 156 Koestenbaum, Wayne Poet's Biography 156 poems available by this author ANSWER IS IN THE GARDEN First Line: I wanted proof of god's hunger, but no sacrifice Last Line: Suit he wore in life fits me well, too well, like a charm Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ARCADES FASHION PROJECT #1: THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (1976) First Line: Ava gardner wore her yellow seersucker expose Last Line: And I wore my opalescent red jung theory of progress ARCHAIC AWE Poem Text First Line: My name is bossyboots Subject(s): Minnelli, Liza (b. 1946) ASIE (SHEHERAZADE) First Line: One word, 'nacreous' Last Line: Slave to a moment's %dream that land is liquid, that there's no prime meridian Variant Title(s): Sheherazad BALLAD OF THE LAYETTE Poem Text Subject(s): Babies; Infants BRAHMS PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 Poem Text First Line: Brahms dreamt Subject(s): Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) CASH First Line: I waited to shave my faint mustache Last Line: Without shaving. What is it men do? They shave. %when men don't shave, their faces at first turn gre COLLECTED WORKS OF SLIMBOY First Line: One cloacal day, a princess %margaret rose opens Last Line: But she has the power to step %over the sea wall into the sea CREVICES First Line: I can't tell apart %human beings and lawn ornaments Last Line: Not my business-but I think about it some mornings DEBUT (ODE TO ANNA MOFFO) First Line: What possesses me Last Line: Addressed to miss moffo, care %of the mind's met, where broadway joins forgotten avenues Subject(s): Moffo, Anna (b. 1934); Singing And Singers DOCTOR TYPE First Line: Lives thirteen floors above and runs a practice Last Line: The wound that aches at dusk, by dawn %will be gone Subject(s): Aids (disease); Physicians; Sickness DOG BITE First Line: I was locking my apartment door, on the way DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES Poem Text First Line: Last night at bar 6 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: I First Line: The same example applies to the excoriated Last Line: Extricating himself from the table, %painfully moving from dinner to dinner %to a virtuous destinati EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: II First Line: ... With averted %eyes, young indicated woman like us Last Line: Chiaroscuro of %earth sometimes united with itself and sometimes riven ... EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: III First Line: Here's dawn undressing like a minor seventh Last Line: When I mature, I will go with flavio %to the place where men meet their negatives EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: IV First Line: Dear god, what adventures I had in rome! Last Line: I dived into myself, after eleanor and her sister %used me as an illustration of ungainliness EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: IX First Line: Most armies, when love knocks, rush to the door Last Line: I've gone two steps toward ardency %without doubting %the sensations that nightly crowd my spine EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: V First Line: Felice is happy, a million times over Last Line: A coarse alpine %air made love to the river in her-- %a daughter minicing, conscientiously EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: VI First Line: O god, %you who told me so, that last time Last Line: I pass the hours %in a torched landscape bereft of parallels EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: VII First Line: I laughed through my nostrils the long ride home Last Line: Only the soul-- 'death,' in common parlance-- %is dry enough to arouse suspicion EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: VIII First Line: Donna, you made error after error Last Line: Lady of the borderless old world's misery, %donna, fresh cold blade of the castrato's axe! EROTIC AND SEPULCHRAL EPIGRAMS FROM THE CINQUENCENTO: X First Line: This is how I consider flowers: they cascade Last Line: Including venus, or the fiendish %interpretation we give ellipses, %when blankness means us no harm EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1970 First Line: In the dressing room Last Line: Only nectar, and privet, and shadow EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1975 First Line: Sodden on her bed Last Line: After the saltimbanque %had removed his louche, aeolian linen EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1976 First Line: Her slant wit woke Last Line: This daredevil attempt at permanent inscription EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1977 First Line: This is how I learned Last Line: My trio rehearsed at the block's end EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1978 First Line: He worked at a gas station Last Line: Resumes its fabled nearness to the sand Subject(s): Homosexuality EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1979 First Line: I took the cable car to liberty baths Last Line: A mile before it meets the magenta, polymorphous bay EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1980 First Line: I turned carnation in the dining hall Last Line: From tomorrow's tamely twirling game-room globe EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1980 First Line: Sedans cruised our beach Last Line: Of ezra pound, a thesis due the ides of march EROTIC COLLECTIBLES: 1992 First Line: One man's dick had the quaint Last Line: Whose haunted ending never shifts EST-CE QUE First Line: I've graduated from rossini's cinderella Last Line: Italian, draws with her voice a commonwealth %in which everything I burn to say at once resides ESTATE SALE Poem Text First Line: On igavel I bought Subject(s): Language; Fathers; Words; Vocabulary FANTASIA ON MY FATHER'S GIFT First Line: For safe mailing, he sealed the box with too much Last Line: Of flesh, as though it were maladroit at sports %and could not rise to the occasion of air FAUST IN SEERSUCKER SHORTS First Line: Do you like opera?' I whispered to him Last Line: And I stole, alone, %downstairs to the darker archipelago, %at what cost you know FEMALE MASCULINITY Poem Text First Line: Two guys sucking each other in the steam room Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FUGITIVE BLUE First Line: My sister made up kennings for what she hated: 'socks fall down' Last Line: When carla put her hand on ricky's knee %I saw my future's blueprint. I was wearing pants of lapis l GAUDY SLAVE TRADER First Line: Everyone hates the gaudy slave trader, for good reason Last Line: But until then, resistance will be my only form of slumber Subject(s): Slavery HISTORY OF BOYS First Line: Call him a %for angel butt, curved poplar Last Line: The boxer flap opened, spoke %this humid moral Subject(s): Homosexuality HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE First Line: First came the age of gold, then silver, steel Last Line: Of a french eighteenth-century pleasure %palace complete with folly, vista, pond, %and the possibili HOW TO BEND Poem Text First Line: Patio furniture, plastic IN PURSUIT OF LOST RIGOR First Line: I'm no longer afraid of my unconquerable laziness, which kind Last Line: Abets my vulnerability to the 'j'accuse' of a passing fly INTO THE LOBSTER BISQUE OF THE SKY I SHALL SAIL First Line: Into the lobter bisque of the sky I shall sail %with my mouth closed Last Line: Even if the world in this case %is only your self, breasting the wind JOHN WAYNE'S PERFUMES Poem Text First Line: In 'cast a giant shadow', john wayne wore claiborne sport; Subject(s): Wayne, John (1907-1979)' Perfume; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema L'INDIFFERENT (SHEHERAZADE) First Line: Poor daphne, changed into a laurel. Her lip-- Last Line: Naked, as if I've purchased him %from an arabian sorceress %who sews the body to its sorrow, invisib LA FLUTE ENCHANTEE (SHEHERAZADE) First Line: A common complaint is that words are not kinetic Last Line: So that she can't distinguish what is space %from what is silver, what is blank from what the wheel LAMENT First Line: I want to stop being a person Last Line: All whispered by one person, all forgotten? LETTER (ODE TO ANNA MOFFO) First Line: Anna, I've waited ten years for this hour: Last Line: You signed it, and my program, with letters huge, %sweeping,circular, so full they overflowed the pa LITTLE ODE TO INCORRIGIBILITY Poem Text First Line: Boy with snot running out his nose, METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brothers; Eve; Half-brothers METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADAM First Line: Two boys exchange dna and blood, the usual Last Line: But what can I reap? What can I destroy? Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Brothers METAMORPHOSES: 1. ADONIS First Line: Some goddess smacked my ear - it bled Last Line: Pretend colts, gamboled on her clavicle METAMORPHOSES: 1. MEDUSA First Line: I like to destroy more that I like to create Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical METAMORPHOSES: 1. MEDUSA First Line: I like to destroy more that I like to create Last Line: We struck a bargain at apollo's urinal Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical METAMORPHOSES: 10. PHILOMELA (FRANK SINATRA) First Line: I lay free and fee-fie-foe on my eighteen hectombs Subject(s): Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998) METAMORPHOSES: 10. PHILOMELA (FRANK SINATRA) First Line: I lay free and fee-fie-foe on my eighteen hectombs Last Line: Our amour a catarrh %of buried family Subject(s): Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998) METAMORPHOSES: 11. HERMAPHRODITUS (JAMES SCHUYLER) First Line: I woke up sweating from dreams of persecution Last Line: Slob ate his matzoh, taught its meaning to the stutterer METAMORPHOSES: 12. TIRESIAS (ELSA SCHIAPARELLI) First Line: Lupine friend, you fell down the vilesmelling stair Last Line: I gave alms to the man who tore out the telephone METAMORPHOSES: 13. CUPID (SAMSON) First Line: I will give a party in arizona, five hundred bucks a head Subject(s): Samson METAMORPHOSES: 13. CUPID (SAMSON) First Line: I will give a party in arizona, five hundred bucks a head Last Line: I bided my time in the fishbelly incinerator Subject(s): Samson METAMORPHOSES: 14. TIRESIAS (SAINT TERESA) First Line: I tripped on the phone cord. We want our Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint METAMORPHOSES: 14. TIRESIAS (SAINT TERESA) First Line: I tripped on the phone cord. We want our Last Line: Skyline and the eggshell house dispensing lully airs ... Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) METAMORPHOSES: 15. PERSEUS (SAINT SEBASTIAN) First Line: My wart grew. It became the hand's foundation Subject(s): Sebastian, Saint (d. 288) METAMORPHOSES: 15. PERSEUS (SAINT SEBASTIAN) First Line: My wart grew. It became the hand's foundation Last Line: This winter does not take place on parnassus Subject(s): Sebastian, Saint (d. 288) METAMORPHOSES: 16. PROSERPINA (JOHN RUSKIN) First Line: I growled tell them to jump off a cliff Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900) METAMORPHOSES: 16. PROSERPINA (JOHN RUSKIN) First Line: I growled tell them to jump off a cliff Last Line: Or wahtever new punishment I can devise Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900) METAMORPHOSES: 17. APOLLO (ARTHUR RIMBAUD) First Line: In rio she met my chariot halfway Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 17. APOLLO (ARTHUR RIMBAUD) First Line: In rio she met my chariot halfway Last Line: Boots for sale in the dream gone for farthings Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 18. PHILOMELA (JEAN RHYS) First Line: For a nanosecond I wanted his bod Subject(s): Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) METAMORPHOSES: 18. PHILOMELA (JEAN RHYS) First Line: For a nanosecond I wanted his bod Last Line: The wrong saint, but I am blind, a rash assaults my bridal bed Subject(s): Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) METAMORPHOSES: 19. PERSEUS (JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU) First Line: And if my prick goes solid in the buttered hole Last Line: The mailslot to receive your oiled salute METAMORPHOSES: 2. ADONIS First Line: Disease was her great context - when she went blind Last Line: Then lay spent on the movie theater floor METAMORPHOSES: 2. MEDUSA First Line: My full lower lip excites the masses Last Line: I'm not the leader - just the secretary METAMORPHOSES: 2. ORPHEUS (OSCAR WILDE) First Line: The mean man came to me in a dream Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) METAMORPHOSES: 2. ORPHEUS (OSCAR WILDE) First Line: The mean man came to me in a dream Last Line: Pork smell steamed from his truncated, polish thumb Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) METAMORPHOSES: 20. PHAETON (EZRA POUND) First Line: We ate mush at the oldage home and waited for the jews Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) METAMORPHOSES: 20. PHAETON (EZRA POUND) First Line: We ate mush at the oldage home and waited for the jews Last Line: And you, tongue cut off, dare approach me for alms? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) METAMORPHOSES: 21. HERMAPHRODITUS (KATHERINE ANNE PORTER) First Line: She opened my ribcage and observed the beating heart Last Line: #name? METAMORPHOSES: 22. OCYRRHOE (ANTONIO AND PIERO DEL POLLAIOLO) First Line: We hung out by the swan - shirtless - we pulled Last Line: I tak mostly about civil war METAMORPHOSES: 3. MEDUSA First Line: Next I will write a book about the plague Subject(s): Plague METAMORPHOSES: 3. MEDUSA First Line: Next I will write a book about the plague Last Line: With a nextie - paisley - brooks brothers Subject(s): Plague METAMORPHOSES: 3. PERSEUS (WALT WHITMAN) First Line: The seer died. No one claimed him Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 3. PERSEUS (WALT WHITMAN) First Line: The seer died. No one claimed him Last Line: I guessed my way out ofthe yard, said black mass at home Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 4. MEDUSA First Line: Damn the use of visual aids in education Subject(s): Education METAMORPHOSES: 4. MEDUSA First Line: Damn the use of visual aids in education Last Line: To mass - and paid attention - and communion tasted like %cinammon Subject(s): Education METAMORPHOSES: 4. MEDUSA (MAE WEST) First Line: I gave my artist sister a cruel haircut Last Line: Face blind-side up, glint cornea curdled milk METAMORPHOSES: 5. DAPHNE (VIOLETTA VALERY) First Line: All three are men Subject(s): Mankind; Murder; Human Race METAMORPHOSES: 5. DAPHNE (VIOLETTA VALERY) First Line: All three are men Last Line: Dagger to the voice! %and I alone Subject(s): Mankind; Murder METAMORPHOSES: 5. HERMAPHRODITUS First Line: So maybe I'm not in the middle of an international Last Line: I'm the hole in your getaway vehicle METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination; Fancy METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Last Line: The cottage was in carmel - on a bluff - nextdoor to bob hope Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA (ELIZABETH TAYLOR) First Line: She meditated, I froze in the adjoining room Last Line: Which part of my body did she not eat? METAMORPHOSES: 7. ECHO First Line: Silly boy - you're wearing a shirt from the 1960's Last Line: You returned in the form of a writ or codicil METAMORPHOSES: 7. ECHO (WALLACE STEVENS) First Line: I acquired new pine teeth Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) METAMORPHOSES: 7. ECHO (WALLACE STEVENS) First Line: I acquired new pine teeth Last Line: And what was I to do %but turn inanimate? Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) METAMORPHOSES: 7. ORPHEUS First Line: He was a darling, stymied drip painter Last Line: Beside a cup of hot milk flavored with hebona METAMORPHOSES: 8. DAPHNE First Line: I wore garlic around my neck to ward off Last Line: Also a forgery - and mortgaged, to boot METAMORPHOSES: 8. ECHO First Line: The married man had a pimple on his lip Last Line: Of my fluid motions -she said slow down - I sped up METAMORPHOSES: 8. ECHO (GERTRUDE STEIN) First Line: I want his quim Subject(s): Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) METAMORPHOSES: 8. ECHO (GERTRUDE STEIN) First Line: I want his quim Last Line: I pardon him, and wade in the river Subject(s): Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) METAMORPHOSES: 9. JUNO (EDMUND SPENSER) First Line: No dios or subcontinent gave him asylum Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) METAMORPHOSES: 9. JUNO (EDMUND SPENSER) First Line: No dios or subcontinent gave him asylum Last Line: I said and fled with eunuch to buckingham palace Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) MOVING OCCUPATIONS First Line: Summer light I was driving towards Last Line: And the girls are gone NATIONAL NUDIST CLUB NEWSLETTER Poem Text First Line: Into the unisex nursery's toilet my undershirt falls Subject(s): Passion; Sex ORNATE AND LOVELY CORNER HOUSE First Line: Oldsmobiles up and down the canals all night Last Line: Why no children %gather in my cool garden when the heat %grows violent PIANO LIFE First Line: Today I sightread the last Last Line: To receive the consolation %of its unending vellum POEM FOR GEORGE PLATT LYNES Poem Text First Line: George platt lynes photographed a naked man, curled Last Line: Raises his hand to feel the fine light fail? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POEM FOR GEORGE PLATT LYNES First Line: George platt lynes photographed a naked man, curled Last Line: Raises his hand to feel the fine light fail? Subject(s): Homosexuality POEM FOR MY SON First Line: The bird cried once in the brake Last Line: Were fluid %on a rotten farmhouse floor POEM FOR MY SON (II) First Line: Sexually I'm zero Last Line: Would have no imagination. %I would have a son Subject(s): Fathers And Sons POSSESSIVENESS Poem Text First Line: The atonality of folded underwear POURQUOI CLUB First Line: Wounded, prosaic, she trusted Last Line: Steve whistles along with petula clark's 'mon homme' PROFESSOR YOUNG AND OLD First Line: My new black horn-rims make me look professorial Last Line: Passed enough time, I will be my father's age, %the age he returns, white-bearded, to forgive berlin RELICS OF THE TRUE CROSS First Line: I escape from my high school charges for one weekend Last Line: He is content with the 'v.' in the fog, the widow %calls 'vain' to me, meaning, 'wayne,' and I answe RHAPSODY First Line: Long ago, before Last Line: In fission: the universe is beginning %again, and baldie is the big bang RHAPSODY: I First Line: What if I were not Last Line: Of sorrow when it flies across the page and leves no trace RHAPSODY: II First Line: I alone among the living Last Line: As we drove past orchards now chopped down RHAPSODY: III First Line: O for the inspiration to speak without error or apology Last Line: Of every foment I could wish for, even before I had reached the wishing age RHAPSODY: IV First Line: Well, I've decided one important thing Last Line: The awful majesty of the one %thing truly worth saying RHAPSODY: IX First Line: I only believe in the huge and the grandiose Last Line: And nothing I can say to you will bring him back to life RHAPSODY: V First Line: If I'm not careful I'll think I'm playing the octaves Last Line: And I stumbled over sex as the stone obstructing mysticism's way RHAPSODY: VI First Line: Tito schipa please give me courage Last Line: To ameliorate the emptiness RHAPSODY: VII First Line: At the memorial garden beside the abandoned mansion Last Line: You need to keep their hues intact RHAPSODY: VIII First Line: When the morning's absinthe-clouded nocturne ends Last Line: And the only way to prove an experience is to repeat it SPLINTERS: 1. THE ORIGIN OF WOE First Line: This afternoon I met my woe Last Line: A fantastic detachment and wore a reversible cape Subject(s): Worry SPLINTERS: 2. TELEPHONE, MY MOTHER'S ANKLE First Line: I telephone my mother's left ankle Last Line: The truth of my iniquity and telephone %my mother's ankle Subject(s): Telephones SPLINTERS: 3. ROSES ANCIENNES First Line: The jews lost faith in me Last Line: Have gone away only momentarily Subject(s): Faith SPLINTERS: 4. THE MOTHER'S SHARD First Line: No matter who you are, you open Last Line: A v-neck sweater and never %fondle shards Subject(s): Knives SPLINTERS: 5. NEURASTHENIA First Line: Normal, I live beside an ugly church Last Line: Domino days, monday knocking sunday %onto saturday SPLINTERS: 6. CLAUSTROPHOBIA First Line: I stand on the cusp %of a giant undertaking Last Line: Well within its vast, %staggered understatement SPLINTERS: 7. TRANSPARENT FLIP-FLOPS First Line: I swam amid turtles in a pool Last Line: Early hours I keep, though I was once %your customer Subject(s): Swimming SPLINTERS: 8. REDWOOD FENCE SPLINTER First Line: Peony, aster, or withered carnation Last Line: Drive I dramatized to the dense %derelict nation Subject(s): Wood SQUARE OF SWAN First Line: Swan on the shower wall, steve washes you Last Line: Respectful of the somber windowbox %creaking as a gust strikes it, and the swan's moan STANZAS IN MY 39TH YEAR: APHORISTIC IN MY 39TH YEAR First Line: I wonder if I have scandalous doings (an early botched Last Line: Wrote a strict %opus one in c STANZAS IN MY 39TH YEAR: MAYORAL RACE IN MY 39TH YEAR First Line: I dropped out of the mayoral race %a scandal. Offered Last Line: Everyone said, 'he looks awake!' %but I was fast asleep STANZAS IN MY 39TH YEAR: NOTHING IN MY 39TH YEAR First Line: My face is widening %cheeks a clown's Last Line: I wish I had a larger chin %it could function as stop sign STANZAS IN MY 39TH YEAR: PRINCESS DIANA IN MY 39TH YEAR First Line: I walked a hamptons beach %diana approached. I stopped Last Line: I've given your evasions much thought.' %what evasions, diana? STANZAS IN MY 39TH YEAR: RITARDANDO IN MY 39TH YEAR First Line: Without license I drove %a bad car in the dark Last Line: Ritards in this piece %we don't want it to drag on longer than it should.' STANZAS IN MY 39TH YEAR: ROLE MODEL IN MY 39TH YEAR First Line: I nominated my role model for a nobel peace prize Last Line: My role model wore it on an ocean liner %waters damned by omissions, equally damned by gold STANZAS IN MY 39TH YEAR: WHY I WANT X IN MY 39TH YEAR First Line: I used to be pretentious %then I grew simplistic Last Line: Three times in one sentence %I might have been the figure circling 'was.' STAR VEHICLES: BEHAVIOR AND MISBEHAVIOR First Line: Raquel welch appeared in my bedroom before the proper world began Last Line: In the venerable arrondissement where she was born STAR VEHICLES: HAUNTING TUNE THAT ENDS TOO SOON First Line: In the early years of plague, I knew a guy who died named crawford Last Line: Illegal to pick, though it grew unfettered along the tragic roads STAR VEHICLES: I'M NOT IN 'DARLING' Poem Text First Line: Bette davis has no reason to be jealous of michelangelo antonioni Last Line: A wilderness stretching farther than the exiled eye could see Subject(s): Davis, Bette (1908-1989); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STAR VEHICLES: I'M NOT IN 'DARLING' First Line: Bette davis has no reason to be jealous of michelangelo antonioni Last Line: A wilderness stretching farther than the exiled eye could see Subject(s): Davis, Bette (1908-1989); Homosexuality STAR VEHICLES: IDA'S GLOVE First Line: Ida lupino appeared on 'this is your life,' one of her hands gloved Last Line: But an extra, disastrous occasion, masked as joy STAR VEHICLES: RITA, TIME, AND SPACE First Line: Rita hayworth in tonight and every night and affair in trinidad Last Line: I was returned from the dead, detached, to observe the anthropology of my %own horror STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX Poem Text First Line: My dead friend vito praised garbo's last scene in queen christina Last Line: With the tranquililty of all final compositions Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX First Line: My dead friend vito praised garbo's last scene in queen christina Last Line: With the tranquillity of all final compositions Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Homosexuality STAR VEHICLES: THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE First Line: Sophia loren, whose birthday, september 20th, I share Last Line: Who wear sophia loren glasses? To what bounty do I remain %blind? TEA DANCE First Line: Young man always expose themselves to me on amtrak Last Line: Talk out of turn, I will never stop talking %in that future where it is eternally my turn THE ASS FESTIVAL Poem Text First Line: Pink cum dribbles out my anus Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BITTER TEARS OF ALEXANDER SCRIABIN Poem Text First Line: A novel begins here Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS Poem Text First Line: Click the grief castanets. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE DEBUT (ODE TO ANNA MOFFO) First Line: What possesses me Subject(s): Moffo, Anna (1934-2006); Singing & Singers; Songs TO A MAPLE Recitation by Author First Line: Green leaves outside my window Subject(s): Maple Trees |
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