NOW VOYAGER

 

BETTE DAVIS

“What a dump!!!”

—Bette Davis

Beyond the Forest

Bette’s “Over-the-Topness”—

Her Baby Jane Flamboyance

Bette’s “All About Eve” swish—

Her cigarette doing its Zig-Zag

Her “Rats in the Cellar” smirk—

Joan Crawford & her din-din

Waiting for the Scream—

Then laughing hysterically

Victor Bruno the real Rat—

Playing the piano so snarky

BITCH GODDESS

Bette Davis toward the end—

Could even dish herself, honey

As an aging Movie Star—

Becoming a Gay Fag Icon

Bette’s exaggeration of Reality—

And yet, my dear, so Real

The older she got the more—

Grande Dame Guignol !!!

Too bad Sylvia Plath couldn’t—

Do Bitch Goddess as well

CHARLES PIERCE

“Fag you” she said—

beginning her drag act

“Please, male actress”—

She’d insist was her role

Her Bette Davis routine—

Her SF act for six years

There at the Plush Room—

A collective experience

Not just impersonation—

But parody as well

UW CREW TEAM DRAG

It’s a narrow foothold—

Bridging camp and pathos

But fuck the pathos—

What about the crew team?

The drag party was down—

Down there in the basement

This crew team stud doing—

A strip-tease act on a table

The clotted jock audience—

Simply couldn’t get enough!!!

NOW VOYAGER

And so there I was—

Charlotte Vale on my knees

Sucking off a built guy—

On the UW crew team then

The music was loud—

The cigarette smoke thick

Bob made me take it all—

He made me go down

Doing a butch sailorboy—

With a tutu big boner