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Transcended college on a transfer to bread, Master's in one hand, my plans up my sleeve. Slithered down the slide to the AT&T

where I swindled an application, and was hired on a slope.

Toiled for a year before the Man came to say: "We don't like faggots. Get your ass out of here." Took my lover's hand; it was a day so divine. Straight men harrassed us, we had to fight for our pride.

What have I got to show? Two broken ribs and a toothless frown;

But man, I was doing time for a price they never found.

Cop snagged my buddy Jim... he's a queen you know. Beat him to an inch of his self-appointed fears; Stripped him of his assets; threw him in the closet defiled.

Poor guy won't come out anymore, a slave to city lava.

Psychoanalyst pinned me to a couch Diagnosing my unresolved Oedipal. Said, "Boy, women are the only way. Don't slight society by playing games."

I spit in his ear and slipped out the front door. Replied, 'You're the one who needs a solution. Shit, passing in lies for a neuterless score.' Kneeled at my priest's feet pleading,

'I'm not a sinner. He smiled, "Take it easy. Once you see the light, you will lose this evil demon."

Curled my head and I cried. Doesn't even Jesus care?

All Father Pat could do was bless mepoor

misguided martyr.

Now I look at my brothers and sisters, an

underground phenomenon.

Leave be me, they sway.

I wish to pass.

Pass what? I ask. An ace of clubs for a queen of diamonds?

A loyal oath for a loaf of head?

Sigh, the struggle persists; with or without...

I look at all of you as you see each other,

One last breath before I go undercover.

What of the pursuit and our schemes?

The changes we had all once foreseen?

My subconscious echos softly, 'Lilt from this time Only deaf ears seem to thrive in seventy-five.' He is right of course, but that doesn't mean

I must live a farce,

For all humanoids must carry their banners, And mine just may be a surplus of jabber.

HIGH GEAR May, 1975 Page 2

-John Nosek

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