Gay Test
Look at your fingernails.
Did you make a fist or
splay your fingers like a fan?
Hold your arms out, palms up.
Did your elbows touch
before your wrists?
Now: Skip across the room.
Stand on one foot.
Say boring.
Say fabulous.
Do you secretly believe
you are more beautiful
than most people?
When a man on the bus touches your knee,
do you want to say, “Don’t. Stop.”
Or “Don’t stop.”
Have you ever ended a sentence
with a proposition?
When someone says “boa”
do you see pink feathers,
or a big snake?
When someone yells
“Hey, faggot.”
Do you look?
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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4 comments:
Love this.
The ending—is complex.
Thanks Charlie. Yes I agree about the ending. It may have a bit of duende in it.
(Also, it might be mis-interpreted as homophobic, or internalized homophobia, at the very least?)
I took it as the poem making a sudden, unexpected turn toward the serious, the dangerous. Everything before this was so innocuous...it was a sudden jolt back to reality.
I didn't interpret the ending that way.
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