Alive to a frightening degree

Where you see yourself as

intrinsic to your surroundings.

What usually blocks from fear

Spills in, senses alert,

Onion layers, deeper distress.

A straight bar bouncer reads

Foucault's History of Sexuality

to guide his own life.

Lay it down in pain, read it back with joy

Loud, raucous, yes, yawping

can't-believe-this-is-you-screaming-

but-who-cares kind of joy.

Alive to a firghtening degree

Aware, attentive it is not you

it is all of us.

 

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