Female Masculinity by Wayne Koestenbaum

Female Masculinity

 

Two guys sucking each other in the steam room

didn’t want anything

to do with me, evidently—

I left them to their comedy.

 

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Legato longings:

wish for walnuts, wish for water,

wish to exorcise this morning’s debauch—

two Fauré nocturnes.

 

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In slow motion

Steve tussled with a motorcycle

trying to run me over

on the boulevard of moon smut

 

splicing together bridges

and lagoons, like the bride

of Frankenstein rushing

to overtake the inert

 

Real, a mass

of facts, some conjugal,

some comic—

contrapuntal tenebrae!