An Exegesis of Homophobia-
Imprecation No.1
i.
A childhood
on the boundary
of bush and lawn,
black and white,
where no dawn
soothed the night.
ii.
to be a lover
was to be
a fighter.
bookish, nerdish
pacificist.
Limp wrists
of
Queensberry pugilists.
take
their
hands off
socks.
their
sweet
tongues
enticing cocks.
iii.
ailing , you
blur faces
at the safety of the
bar.
Upstairs you fall,
beloved,
following the rat
piper.
Die young :
The old ritual call.
More pretty friends
dead,
pity
is all.