Dolce far niente – Canal Parade, Amsterdam
 Gay Pride and Diversity door Neil McBride, z.j.
Dear Gaybashers
The night we got bashed we told Rusty how they drove up, yelled QUEER, threw a hot dog, sped off.
Rusty: Now, is that gaybashing? Or are they just calling you queer? Good point.
Josey pitied the fools: who buys a perfectly good pack of wieners and drives around San Francisco chucking them at gays?
And who speeds off? Missing the point, the pleasure of the bash? Dear bashers, you should have seen the hot dog hit my neck,
the scarf Josey sewed from antique silk kimonos: so gay. You missed laughing at us, us confused, your raw hot dog on the ground.
Josey and Rusty and Bob make fun of the gaybashers, and I wash my scarf in the sink. I use Woolite. We worry
about insurance, interest rates. Not hot dogs thrown from F-150s, homophobic freaks. After the bashing, we used the ATM
in the sex shop next to Annie's Social Club, smiled at the kind owner, his handlebar mustache. Astrud Gilberto sang tall and tan
and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema... and the dildos gleamed from the walls, a hundred cheerful colors. In San Francisco
it rains hot dogs, pity-the-fool. Ass-sized penguins, cock after cock in azure acrylic, butterscotch glass, anyone's flesh-tone, chrome.
 Jill McDonough (Hartford, Connecticut, 1972)
 Couples door Raphael Perez, z.j.
Voorkeur
Liefde: de kortste eeuwigheid. Laat het maar vriendschap zijn, dan heeft het alle tijd.
 Jan Eijkelboom (1 maart 1926 – 28 februari 2008)
' Orpheus door Richard Taddei, z.j.
Lullaby
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.
Soul and body have no bounds: To lovers as they lie upon Her tolerant enchanted slope In their ordinary swoon, Grave the vision Venus sends Of supernatural sympathy, Universal love and hope; While an abstract insight wakes Among the glaciers and the rocks The hermit’s carnal ecstasy.
Certainty, fidelity On the stroke of midnight pass Like vibrations of a bell, And fashionable madmen raise Their pedantic boring cry: Every farthing of the cost, All the dreaded cards foretell, Shall be paid, but from this night Not a whisper, not a thought, Not a kiss nor look be lost.
Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find the mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.
 Wystan Hugh Auden (21 februari 1907 – 29 september 1973)
Zie voor de schrijvers van de 4e augustus ook mijn blog van 4 augustus 2017 en ook mijn blog van 4 augustus 2013 en mijn blog van 4 augustus 2011 deel 1 en ook deel 2 en eveneens deel 3 en mijn blog over Robert Beck.
04-08-2018 om 12:41
geschreven door Romenu 
Tags:Dolce far niente, Jill McDonough, Jan Eijkelboom, Wystan Hugh Auden, Romenu, Amsterdam
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