Monday, October 10, 2011

Want Ad

In honor of Coming Out Day, here's a poem about the moments before I came out.


Want Ad


Sitting in the booth, straw

between my fingers

I commit.

Again

with my cursor on

send, again when you ask

why.


The words dry.

I’ll hire an actress to sit

beside me,

take your hands.

My understudy, speak

my lines.