BIJOU BILDUNGSROMAN
Kansas as a bad movie—
a failed Filmography of dreams
the story of my so-called life
There in the cool Granada—
air-conditioned in the summers
saved by Hollywood fantasies
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Then standing afterwards—
under the bright marquee
there on Commercial Street
Dazed even delirious—
still lost in some filmic dream
like IMITATION OF LIFE
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Saturday matinee thrillers—
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK
LAGOON & WAR OF THE WORLDS
While the grim, grimacing old—
Presbyterian Church across the
street looked down and frowned
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Predicting a doomed boyhood—
of too much excessive fantasy
and literary trouble-making
After all my dears, surely it was—
Hollywood and the Granada that
turned me into a decadent Fag!!!
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