Dear Queer Bar

Dear queer bar

Don't dissolve like rainbow, bubble, dewdrop

Rose, lightning, flash, world

Stay o'er young men with charming sideburns

Delicate black sweaters and rum coats

Jukebox led thee chanting softly from the heart

Guitar chords blurbing through alcoholic ices

Sweet bodies stay, I'm alone

Blonde beard nod in my company

Flesh is so soft and sweet, bellies so white and tender

How can consumption, cancer, at 4am DDT

Disprove the tenderness of loneliness

Longings, and solitary sighs?

Sweet boys, never fade

God wants you, loves you

Lights flash on polished balconies and gables

"Time to go now!"

Waitress and I sigh

Glasses clink in hand

The music's stopped

"I'm sorry, I'll have to collect your drink in one minute"

Heavens, give me the perception to die happy