Pro Pederasty

Pro Pederasty

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“A new translation
of the Duke de la
Rochefoucalt’s
moral maxims.”
— Hal Gladfelder
In Search of Lost Texts:
Thomas Cannon’s
Ancient and Modern Pederasty
Investigated and Exemplify’d
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I will speak about—
Pederasts of Letters
For I’m in the Racket

Our biggest success—
To date? A bunch of
Poetic Old Queens
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Our saddest most—
Conspicuous failure
So far, my dears?

Male spinsters—
Closeted & on loan
To their wives
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Talk about publish—
Or perish and treated
Like surrogate literati

Sad sonneteers—
Toasting lovely boys
We loved at thirteen
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And all those—
Middle-aged virgins
Not knowing the divine

Puerile anthologists—
Thru lust and lechery
Murmuring softly
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Barbiturate-drenched—
Camilles with long
Continuous periods

Poetry not a craft—
But rather a teenage
Sticky effluvium
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The air thick with—
Incense, dope and
Emotional blackmail

We are custodians—
Of the world’s best
Kept Secret

Merely the private—
Lives of one-half
Of Humanity