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...true. In the last six years, while writing The Look of Things, I've tried to be absolutely true about certain facts in my life. If a straight man is true about the facts in his life, his poems aren't considered "straight poems." Therefore I resist seeing my poems as identity-specific. I don't think of my poems as being for a gay audience, just because they deal with gay love, say, any more than I expect that Herbert or Donne thought of their poems as being for only religious readers. I don't even feel that...
...federal agents] come to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they are gonna be wearing bulletproof vests... Head shots, head shots...
Scott, who had toiled at Pacific Theatres since high school, served as my guiding Virgil. He helped me secure my uniform. Who could resist the chance to be a fashion plate? The gray polyester pants seemed to cling to one for dear life, as if the wearer were their last chance for redemption. There was also the natty dark blue polyester vest, which made me look like a Christmas pudding, and the rakish gray clip-on tie made from some fabric whose origins I've yet to divine. Finally, honor of honors, I also had my very own name...
Mighty Odysseus--Homeric hero, victorious conqueror, cunning adventurer--beat the Cyclops, overcame the temptations of female goddesses and survived the wrath of Poseidon. Yet even mighty Odysseus had to tie himself to the mast of his ship in order to resist the alluring songs of the Sirens, a band of lyrical mermaids who sought to destroy...
...seems that Dr. Griffin could not resist the exhibition after all the hype, and agreed to show the mermaid at Concert Hall for one week only. By chance, after this week, the mermaid moved to the AmericanMuseum, where Barnum welcomed it with an 18-footflag of a beautiful mermaid. Barnum dismissed allthis as a "ploy" to attract people to his museum.His carefully-planned publicity campaign workedwell; museum receipts almost tripled, and themermaid was off to tour the country...