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Another Gay Love Poem [1]

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Date: 2023-04-26  

A sunny bench on the northeast perimeter of Boston's Public Garden. Behind it is Beacon Street; across Beacon and a few steps to the left is the Arthur Fiedler footbridge over Storrow Drive to the Esplanade and the Charles and across the river Cambridge. Benches, like walls it seems, have stories.

Another Gay Love Poem

How different you looked

sitting down the bench from me,

sporting your worn-out dark-brown corduroys,

that tattered old checkerboard flannel shirt,

and your new independent face.

As I turned my face only slightly away from you

I could feel the morning sun Rembrandting my features,

as I could feel your eyes warming my other cheek.

"I still love you" I said,

looking back,

into your eyes;

"but I don't need you."

"I don't need you anymore."

It felt good to say that,

sitting with you

one more time

on that bench

in the morning sun.

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