Weather Underground
79 Phonomania: A History of Noise
80 Gay Boys & the Bridges Who Love Them
bury it
WILL
the fisherman’s sneakers trouble the water
he baits his hooks with homophones, cartilage, pheromones
his hooks : telephones, specula, seraphim
he lowers his line into the dark
an adrenal needle plunged into the heart
feels something bite below the river
& pulls up boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
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after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
after boy,
BILDUNGSROMAN
i never wanted to grow up to be anything horrible as a man. my biggest fear was the hair they said would snake from my chest, swamp trees breathing as i ran. i prayed for a different kind of puberty:
