A Scene In A Movie Sal Mineo in "Rebel"

Gary

Perhaps when I'm in heaven

With all the cherubim

I'll have another lover

Gentle, sweet – like him.

I teased him like the bastard

Mental doctors paint.

He made funny faces

And planned to be a saint.

Finally he left me,

Muscular and pretty.

In 1969

I went to New York City.

Everything I wanted

And everything I lack

In a single lover

Who's never coming back.

Except one day he did.

He followed me. He wrote.

I was in Manhattan.

I ignored him, like a goat.

9-24-13

 

Dead End

Like a lyric in a Broadway show,

A poem has to click, or it's no go.

You labored on your ode for half the night.

It isn't wrong. It merely isn't right.

One reading tells you whether it is great.

And if it is, so what? A verse? You date.

Life

Life is a dark forest.

You cannot see your way there.

The most that you can do

Is find a rock and stay there.

Groping in the darkness

Grab religion, start a fight.

Jesus and the bible

Give you artificial light.

People who run countries,

Invent, write poetry

Are managed by an undisclosed

And secret destiny.

Great men who do not choose

The fortune that befits them

Will carry on for 90 years,

Unless a trolley hits them.

4-23-12

 

A Scene In A Movie

Sal Mineo in "Rebel" -

And the horror of the stars!

The Cosmos overwhelms

A little pebble on a planet,

Nothing could be tinier,

Smaller, more dispensable, -

Or nothing could be larger,

More gigantic or indifferent,

As Mineo crouched whimpering

In the planetarium.

7-14-11

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