It's A Learning Experience

A feather boa

Constrictor

(I hardly know ‘er!)

winds its way around my neck cascades down my crackling shoulder

in the neon lights through a haze of Jack and coke and John and simon

My limp wrists twist their way to heaven

because I am transcending

because I know that

I can love the sin and hate the sinner

I can love a man and hate myself

Pride doesn't erase shame so much as lives with it in an uneasy partnership

The Most Famous Gay Couple

It’s Bert and Ernie or Adam and Steve but Bert doesn't speak and Steve was a moose carcass