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      December 23, 2011Christopher CrawfordSo Gay

      How gay is it
      for two men
      to stroke
      the same dog
      at the same time.
       
      What if they’re both
      sitting on a sofa watching
      When Harry Met Sally.
       
      How about two men watching
      the same gorgeous sunset
      from the same high ridge.
       
      And if a man daydreaming
      on a bus ride finds his eyes when focus returns,
      quite accidentally, on the crotch
      of the man seated opposite.
       
      How about two men riding
      a bus into a gorgeous sunset
      or two gorgeous men watching
      a sunset in silence. How about
      two men daydreaming and stroking
      a gorgeous dog and the dog makes
      a strange deep sound of pleasure.
       
      What if the men are old friends.
      What if they’re brothers.
      What if there’s music playing.

      from #35 - Summer 2011

      Christopher Crawford

      “How gay is it to write poems? I like to make people uncomfortable with my poetry; I like to make myself uncomfortable. I like to use the truth to provoke, to handle strong themes in a contemporary manner. Once the opening stanza entered my mind from wherever these things come from, the rest of the poem came without too much trouble. I pinned ‘So Gay’ to the bathroom wall of my old apartment in Ho Chi Minh City in July 2010, perhaps it’s still there.”