Bad Boy Bijou

BAD BOY BIJOU

“It’s something that’s 
part of me, that I grew 
up with, especially movies”
—John Ashbery
OUR DEEP GOSSIP: 
CONVERSATIONS WITH 
GAY WRITERS ON POETRY
AND DESIRE
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Funny isn’t it—

How dreams are like

MAGIC THEATER

This morning I had—

A Gay Whooperdoozie

A Bad Boy Bijou flick

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Mostly movie dreams—

For me are usually dreams

Inside other dreams

I’ll wake up from some—

Riveting Melodrama and

Be inside a Dream Theater

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Then the dream continues—

But with a dream audience

All of us onerically enthralled

Then I'd wake up and—

Realize I'd been dreaming

Just a dream-inside-a-dream

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Has that ever happened—

To you maybe, like when you

Wake up in bed for real?

My dream this morning—

I woke up under the Marquee

Outside the Bad Boy Bijou

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The funny thing is—

Throngs of cute chicken

Couples were coming

Coming and going—

Out of the Bijou Theater

Pairs of Justin Bieber lovers