Word: paeans
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...SECOND SIDE opens with "Where the Boy All Go," a rock and roll paean to gay bars. Homosexuality is presented here, as it has always appeared to straights, as an act of desperation. There's really no question of Jagger's orientation; when asked by High Society magazine whether he was at least bisexual, he replied, "I don't suck cock, and I've never had my prick in any guy's ass," which would seem to answer the question. There is another reference to the Hellenic detour elsewhere, on "Let Me Go," when Jagger moans, "Maybe I'll become...
...SECOND SIDE opens with "Where the Boy All Go," a rock and roll paean to gay bars. Homosexuality is presented here, as it has always appeared to straights, as an act of desperation. There's really no question of Jagger's orientation; when asked by High Society magazine whether he was at least bisexual, he replied, "I don't suck cock, and I've never had my prick in any guy's ass," which would seem to answer the question. There is another reference to the Hellenic detour elsewhere, on "Let Me Go," when Jagger moans, "Maybe I'll become...
...SECOND SIDE opens with "Where the Boy All Go," a rock and roll paean to gay bars. Homosexuality is presented here, as it has always appeared to straights, as an act of desperation. There's really no question of Jagger's orientation; when asked by High Society magazine whether he was at least bisexual, he replied, "I don't suck cock, and I've never had my prick in any guy's ass," which would seem to answer the question. There is another reference to the Hellenic detour elsewhere, on "Let Me Go," when Jagger moans, "Maybe I'll become...
...Hermes by Praxiteles. Parks also primed himself for the project by studying scores of books and video tapes of the singer and absorbing untold decibels of Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock. Miniatures of the statue will be marketed in the future; meanwhile Parks is turning his chisel to another paean to Presley: a drooling hound dog fountain, with no known Greek antecedents...
...Across the wires the electric message came:/ 'He is no better. He is much the same.' " Occasional verse itself, poetry on demand, almost always leads to things like that. It would be difficult for any poet, laureate or not, to surpass the Englishman Samuel Carter's "Paean" to the London sewer system: "Magnificent, too, is the system of drains,/ Exceeding the far-spoken wonders of old/ . . . Well did the ancient proverb lay down this important text/ That cleanliness for human weal to godliness is next...