http://bleodswean.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bleodswean.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] greatpoetry 2014-04-23 08:47 pm (UTC)

Totally agree. I found this viewpoint terrible. And shameful. And about the teacher's inability to connect, to accept. I really resonate with your thought about the confusion of queerness.

This stanza just reveals so much of the narrator and not in a good way -

Each darkening bruise precise as a writer’s word,
Saying, at last, who you were– exactly
And to anyone who would listen.


Why on EARTH would dying of AIDS tell anyone exactly who someone is?????????????????????? I find that sentiment to be....so wrong that it hurts me to read it.

Perhaps my own dead friends are making me read this incorrectly?

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