Nelly Narcissus

Nicolas Poussin, Echo and Narcissus, 1629

NELLY NARCISSUS 

“a mephitis of alcohol, 

anality & and spank magazines."

—Martin Amis

"Don Juan in Hull," 

New Yorker 1992

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“Notable United States gay poets 

include Dennis Cooper, Gavin Dillard, 

John Gill, Dennis Kelly, Tom Meyer, 

Paul Monette, Harold Norse and 

Jonathan Williams.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_Homosexual_and_Gay_Poetry

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Miss Kelly actually was just—

A rather minor gay laureate 

Of faggy denouement 

Being the least of the—

Esteemed list of gay potentates

Thus avoiding tres lit crit

Thus somewhat spared—

From the waxing & waning of 

any gay literary reputation

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CHICKEN scandalized some—

But pretty soon it was ho-hum

What else is new, my dear?

She got out as early as she—

Could & got a Sugar Daddy

Domestica Americana etc

She was just a Mabel—

A dreary-deary queen bee

Garçon to the Gay Muse

She enjoyed fag squalor—

Derisory of Queer Theory

And Political Correctness

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Life to her was simply—

Boredom & then some more

Boredom as life dragged on

Camp, kitsch & irony—

Those gay specialties & vices

Her decadent fag poetics

She never outgrew it—

Even tho she got bored with it

Nelly Narcissus in the Mirror

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